Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians

• Hardcover | Judaism in Context
• The Sasanian Empire was home to many religious communities. Most, however, deal with the interaction of one or other religious community based in the ... Lees meer

Jewish and Roman Law (vol 1)

Boaz Cohen, Natalie Dohrmann

• Hardcover | Judaism in Context
• This work is volume 1 of Boaz Cohen’s collected articles, with a new introduction by rabbinics scholar Natalie B. Dohrmann. Lees meer

All is in the Hands of Heaven

Morris Faierstein

• Hardcover | Judaism in Context
• Mordecai Joseph Leiner of Izbica was a unique thinker in the history of Hasidism with a highly personal vision of Judaism. He also reinterpreted the L... Lees meer

The Scholastic Culture of the Babylonian Talmud

Noah Bickart

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 31
• The Scholastic Culture of the Babylonian Talmud studies how and in what cultural context the Talmud began to take shape in the scholastic centers of r... Lees meer

Jewish-Christian Conversation in Fourth-Century Persian Mesopotamia

Naomi Koltun-Fromm

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context
• Was there an active Jewish-Christian polemic in fourth-century Persia? Aphrahat's Demonstrations, a fourth-century adversus Judaeos text, clearly indi... Lees meer

Second Slayings

David Gottlieb

• Hardcover | Judaism in Context
• This work is a study of Jewish cultural memory as exemplified by rabbinic midrash of the Amoraic period, the second through fifth centuries of the Com... Lees meer

The Rabbis’ King-Parables

Alan Appelbaum

• Hardcover | Judaism in Context
• The Rabbis’ King-Parables: Midrash From the Third-Century Roman Empire examines the ancient Rabbis at work using parables about kings; It considers th... Lees meer

Perils of Wisdom

Sheila Keiter

• Hardcover | Judaism in Context
• An exploration of the biblical Solomon narrative and Jewish perceptions of the king. Lees meer

First Came Marriage

Susan Marks

• Hardcover | Judaism in Context
• Combining these approaches allows for a new look at practices rejected or highlighted by early rabbis and their successors, and First Came Marriage: T... Lees meer

Noble Soul: The Life & Legend of the Vilna Ger Tzedek Count Walenty Potocki

J. Prouser

• Hardcover | Judaism in Context
• Walenty Potocki was a young Polish nobleman who abandoned wealth, power, and unlimited worldly prospects to convert to new religion - Judaism. This bo... Lees meer

In and Around Maimonides

Y Y Langermann

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 25
• In and Around Maimonides presents eight highly focused studies on Moses Maimonides and those around him. "In Maimonides" refers to close readings of p... Lees meer

The Stories They Tell

Judith Hauptman

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 32
• In this engaging book of commentary on the Talmud, the author upends the long-held theory of the immutability of halakhah, Jewish law. In her detailed... Lees meer

Maimonides

Shalom Sadik

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 30
• Was Maimonides a radical philosopher who subtly argued for a naturalist world and who saw the obligation to keep the Torah's commandments as a social ... Lees meer

Pragmatic Studies in Judaism

• Hardcover | Judaism in Context
• This book is the first attempt to apply formal pragmatics to Judaic studies as a discipline under the auspices of cultural studies, reconstructing the... Lees meer

Emerging Horizons. 21st Century Approaches to the Study of Midrash

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 26
• The chapters in Emerging Horizons: 21st Century Approaches to the Study of Midrash pertain to an intriguing midrash that appears in a Masoretic contex... Lees meer

Judaic Logic

Tzvee Zahavy

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context
• Judaic reasoning is discussed from the standpoint of modern logic. Andrew Schumann defines Judaic logic, traces Aristotelian influence on developing J... Lees meer

How Should Rabbinic Literature Be Read in the Modern World?

Matthew Kraus

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 4
• Through literary, historical, archaeological, and engendered readings, this collection of essays presents a multidisciplinary analysis of rabbinic tex... Lees meer

Jewish and Roman Law (vol 2)

Natalie Dohrmann, Boaz Cohen

• Hardcover | Judaism in Context
• This work is volume 2 of Boaz Cohen’s collected articles, with a new introduction by rabbinics scholar Natalie B. Dohrmann. Lees meer