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Author: Arthur Green
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary Jews. The book is at once a beginner's invitation to the profundity of Jewish spirituality and a rich rethinking of texts and positions for those who have already walked some distance along the Jewish path.
Author: Stefan C. Reif
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-03-23
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780521483414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA scholarly but readable guide to the history of Jewish prayer from biblical times to the modern period.
Author: Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1438401906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies — for example, to their concerns with reproduction and sexuality, menstruation and childbirth— this volume contributes to a revisioning of what Jews and Judaism are and have been. The project of re-membering the Jewish body has both historical and constructive motivations. As a constructive project, this book describes, renews, and participates in the complex and ongoing modern discussion about the nature of Jewish bodies and the place of bodies in Judaism.
Author: Martin Buber
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780826408952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this remarkable collection of letters, essays, book reviews, and excerpts from such classics as Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption, five giants of modern Jewish thought present their personal views of Christianity. Each Jewish thinker is introduced and critiqued in turn by a Christian scholar on his thought.
Author: Simcha Paull Raphael
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-04-15
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 153810346X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1994, Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a classic study of ideas of afterlife and postmortem survival in Jewish tradition and mysticism. As both a scholar and pastoral counselor, Raphael guides the reader through 4,000 years of Jewish thought on the afterlife by investigating pertinent sacred texts produced in each era. Through a compilation of ideas found in the Bible, Apocrypha, rabbinic literature, medieval philosophy, medieval Midrash, Kabbalah, Hasidism and Yiddish literature, the reader learns how Judaism conceived of the fate of the individual after death throughout Jewish history. In addition, this book explores the implications of Jewish afterlife beliefs for a renewed understanding of traditional rituals of funeral, burial, shiva, kaddish and more. This newly released twenty-fifth anniversary edition presents new material on little-known Jewish mystical teachings on reincarnation, a chapter on “Spirits, Ghosts and Dybbuks in Yiddish Literature”, and a foreword by the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism, Rabbi Arthur Green. Both historical and contemporary, this book provides a rich resource for scholars and laypeople and for teachers and students and makes an important Jewish contribution to the growing contemporary psychology of death and dying.
Author: Elisheva Carlebach
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-11-25
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9004221174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work revisits the millennia-old Jewish-Christian encounter by providing a nuanced understanding of its challenges as well as presenting new perspectives on hitherto neglected areas of cultural, religious, and social interchange and influence.
Author: Mark D. Nanos
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2018-06-28
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1498242324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver fifty years ago, Vatican II's Nostra Aetate 4 drew from Romans 11 to challenge the way Paul's voice has been used to negatively discuss Jews and Judaism. The church called for Catholics to conceptualize Jews as "brothers" in "an everlasting covenant," and many other Christian organizations have expressed similar sentiments in the years since. Nevertheless, the portrayal of Jews as "branches broken off," "hardened," "without faith," "disobedient," and "enemies of God" whom Christians have "replaced" as "true Israel," are among the many ways that readers encounter Paul's views of Jews and Judaism in today's translations and interpretations of this chapter, and throughout the letter as well. In the chapters in this volume, Nanos shows why these translations and interpretive decisions, among others, do not likely represent what Paul wrote or meant. Each essay offers challenges to the received view of Paul from the research hypothesis that Paul and the Christ-followers to whom he wrote were still practicing Judaism (a Jewish way of life) within subgroups of the Jewish synagogue communities of Rome, and that they understood Paul to observe Torah and promote Judaism for their communities.
Author: Levy Daniella
Publisher:
Published: 2016-03-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789659254002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a collection of letters from a religious Jew in Israel to a Christian friend in Barcelona on life as an Orthodox Jew. Equal parts lighthearted and insightful, it's a thorough and entertaining introduction to the basic concepts of Judaism.
Author: Mark D. Nanos
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1451494289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn these chapters, a group of renowned international scholars seek to describe Paul and his work from “within Judaism,” rather than on the assumption, still current after thirty years of the “New Perspective,” that in practice Paul left behind aspects of Jewish living after his discovery of Jesus as Christ (Messiah). After an introduction that surveys recent study of Paul and highlights the centrality of questions about Paul’s Judaism, chapters explore the implications of reading Paul’s instructions as aimed at Christ-following non-Jews, teaching them how to live in ways consistent with Judaism while remaining non-Jews. The contributors take different methodological points of departure: historical, ideological-critical, gender-critical, and empire-critical, and examine issues of terminology and of interfaith relations. Surprising common ground among the contributors presents a coherent alternative to the “New Perspective.” The volume concludes with a critical evaluation of the Paul within Judaism perspective by Terence L. Donaldson, a well-known voice representative of the best insights of the New Perspective.
Author: Elliot Rosenberg
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Is it good for the Jews?" From Shakespeare to Nixon, this book analyzes from a Jewish perspective just who were the good and bad guys.
