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  • The Guide for the Perplexed

    by Moshe ben Maimon, M. Friedlander, Translator ...
    "The Guide for the Perplexed (Hebrew: Moreh Nevukhim) is one of the major works of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides or "the Rambam". It was written in the 12th century in the form of a three-volume letter to his student, Rabbi Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta, the son of Rabbi Judah, and is the main source of the Rambam's philosophical views...Mosheh ben Maimon, (Arabic: Musa ibn Maymun ... Read more

    3,81 €

  • Mose, die ägyptischen Plagen und der Exodus

    2. erweiterte Auflage

    by Erhard Zauner ...
    Series Book 2 - Kritische Betrachtungen
    Während der 400 Jahre des Aufenthaltes in Ägypten lässt sich Jahwe nicht blicken. Erst als Mose nach dem Mord an einem Ägypter fliehen muss, bekniet er den 80-jährigen, ihm beim geplanten Auszug seines versklavten Volkes zu helfen. Jahwe inszeniert daraufhin die hollywoodreife magische Show der ägyptischen Plagen. Doch auch wie in der Urzeit (siehe Band 1) ist der Exodus von Problemen und Pannen ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • The Forbidden Relations and the Early Tannaim

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    by John W. McGinley ...
    Is there an idiosyncratically Jewish hermeneutic? Did such ever obtain in Jewish history? Is there an idiosyncratically Jewish theology? Did such ever obtain in Jewish history? Did the two ever obtain at once and together in Jewish history? The answer to all of these questions is: Yes.Come and explore -- with an idiosyncratically odd interpreter of things Jewish -- a special brief moment in the ... Read more

    4,95 €

  • Septuagint - 2ⁿᵈ Kingdoms

    by Scriptural Research Institute ...
    Series Book 10 - Septuagint
    In the mid 3rd century BC, King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt ordered a translation of the ancient Hebrew scriptures for the Library of Alexandria, which resulted in the creation of the Septuagint. The original version, published circa 250 BC, only included the Torah, or in Greek terms, the Pentateuch. The Torah is the five books traditionally credited to Moses, circa 1500 BC: Cosmic Genesis, ... Read more

    3,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Septuagint - Tobit (Sinaiticus Version)

    by Scriptural Research Institute ...
    Series Book 19 - Septuagint
    The Book of Tobit appears to be from an older sect of Judaism, likely the one led by the 'false priest' Tobiah, who was expelled from the temple by Ezra when his genealogy could not be proven in 2nd Ezra. 2nd Ezra was the version of Ezra used by the Pharisee sect which emerged under the Hasmonean Dynasty, while Tobit, along with Enoch, Jubilees, and Job appears to have primarily been used by the ... Read more

    3,17 €

  • Engaging the Word

    by Michael Johnston ...
    Series series New Church's Teaching Series
    The companion to Volume 2 of The New Church's Teaching Series, Roger Ferlo's Opening the Bible, Michael Johnston's Engaging the Word teaches us how to use the critical and practical tools for reading the Bible described by Ferlo to interpret the Hebrew and Christian scriptures: what did they mean for their original audience and what do they mean for us today?Johnston introduces us to the key terms ... Read more

    16,31 €

  • Ki Tetse' (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) and Haftarah (Isaiah 54:1-10)

    The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary

    by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin ...
    Series series JPS Study Bible
    The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the weekly Torah portion, and one model davar Torah on the weekly Haftarah portion. Jewish learning—for ... Read more

    4,12 €

  • The Shepherd Psalm: A Meditation

    by WILLIAM EVANS, Ph.D ...
    The world could afford to spare many a magnificent library better than it could dispense with this little Psalm of six verses. If the verses of this Psalm had tongues and could repeat the tale of their ministry down throughout the generations of the faithful, what marvels of experience they would reveal! Their biographies would be gathered from the four winds of heaven and from the uttermost parts ... Read more

    2,49 €

  • Sichos In English, Volume 20 — Adar II-Iyar, 5744

    by Sichos In English ...
    Excerpts of Sichos delivered by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, The Lubavitcher Rebbe, at his periodic public addresses, translated into English, Adar II-Iyar, 5744 ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • Sichos In English, Volume 19 — Kislev-Adar II, 5744

    by Sichos In English ...
    Excerpts of Sichos delivered by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, The Lubavitcher Rebbe, at his periodic public addresses, translated into English, Kislev-Adar II, 5744 ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • The Hebrew Revelation, James and Jude: ספר אלה הסודות, אגרת יעקב ואגרת יהודה

    by Justin J. Van Rensburg ...
    [Sabbath: please don't purchase on Sabbath (friday evening - saturday evening).]Discover the Hebrew Book of Revelation!Complete English translation from Hebrew.Vowel-pointed Hebrew transcript for easy study.Bonus: includes the same for James and Jude!Based on Hebrew manuscripts discovered in India.Extensive evidence of authenticity, inclu... ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Tratado sobre la Creación del Cosmos

    by Frederick Guttmann ...
    Este trabajo es una tesis que recoge versiones antiguas sobre el origen del universo, partiendo principalmente de las fuentes hebreas del Barashit (Génesis) hebreo y el Enuma-Elis sumerio. Aquí hago una traducción y revisión comparándola con la teoría científica de la formación cósmica, para recalcar la gran afinidad entre estos antiguos escritos, y otros relatos, con los recientes descubrimientos ... Read more

    4,49 €

  • Jewish Targum and the New Testament

    by William Henderson ...
    Jewish Targum and the New Testament by William Henderson is an insightful exploration into the profound connections between Jewish Targumic traditions and the foundational texts of Christianity. This book delves deep into the ways the Targum, a rich Jewish interpretive tradition of Hebrew scriptures, shaped early Christian thought and theology. Henderson reveals how early Christian writers, ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Das Hohelied im Konflikt der Interpretationen

    Edited by Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger ...
    Series Book 47 - Oesterreichische Biblische Studien
    Das Buch analysiert kritisch den vorherrschenden Konsens, das Hohelied (Canticum) als Sammlung profaner Liebeslieder zu verstehen. Intertextualität und Rezeptionsästhetik lassen das traditionelle metaphorisch-religiöse Verständnis des Buches in einem neuen Licht erscheinen. Die altorientalische Liebeslyrik liefert weitere Argumente für diese offene Sicht. Ob das allegorische Verständnis des ... Read more

    93,48 €

  • Orientation to the History of Roman Judaea

    by Steve Mason ...
    No field of study is livelier than the history of Roman-era Judaea (ca. 200 BC to AD 400). Bold reinterpretations of texts and new archaeological discoveries prompt us constantly to rethink assumptions. What kind of religion was Judaism? How did Jews--and Christians--relate to Roman imperial power? Should we speak of Judaism or Judaisms? How should the finds at Qumran affect our understanding? Did ... Read more

    24,69 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cantor

    From the Mishnah to Modernity

    by Wayne Allen ...
    Wayne Allen traces the evolution of the office of synagogue cantor as reflected in the primary sources of Jewish law as well as in Jewish lore from the third century to the present day. Allen explores the ambivalence of both Jewish authorities and the Jewish public toward the cantor and speculates on the future of the position. ... Read more

    22,67 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genesis as Torah

    Reading Narrative as Legal Instruction

    by Brian Neil Peterson ...
    Should Genesis rightly be identified as law--that is, as torah or legal instruction for Israel? Peterson argues in the affirmative, concluding that Genesis serves a greater function than merely offering a prehistory or backstory for the people of Israel. As the introductory book to the Torah, Genesis must first and foremost be read as legal instruction for Israel. And how exactly is that ... Read more

    16,21 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The God Biographers

    Our Changing Image of God from Job to the Present

    by Larry Witham ...
    The God Biographers presents a sweeping narrative of the Western image of God since antiquity, following the theme of how the "old" biography of God has been challenged by a "new" biography in the twenty-first century. The new biography has made its case in free will theism, process thought, evolutionary doctrines, relational theology, and "open theism"-a story of people, ideas, and events that is ... Read more

    92,42 €

  • The Man Who Knew God

    Decoding Jeremiah

    by Mordecai Schreiber ...
    The Man Who Knew God unravels the complexities of the book of Jeremiah and argues that this prophet is the key figure in shaping Western civilization. Mordecai Schreiber posits that Jeremiah is not only the one who eradicated paganism amongst the Hebrew people, but he can also be considered the founder of the post-biblical Jewish faith. Offering intriguing insight into Jeremiah's role in the ... Read more

    42,28 €

  • Why Is America Different?

    American Jewry on its 350th Anniversary

    Edited by Steven T. Katz ...
    Does the American Jewish experience represent a singular communal circumstance, or does it repeat, with obvious and unavoidable variation, the older European pattern of Jewish existence? In 2004, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the establishment of the American Jewish community, this question seemed well worth revisiting. To explore it more fully, the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic ... Read more

    48,54 €

  • The Jews of North Africa

    From Dido to De Gaulle

    by Sarah Taieb-Carlen ...
    Translated by Amos Carlen ...
    Before the Arabo-Muslim conquest of 698, the Jews lived peacefully in North Africa with the other inhabitants of the region, except for a few brief periods of Roman and Byzantine rules.Under Islam, life was at times so good that some of the most important religious works since Babylon were written by North African Jewish scholars. Often, however, the Jews suffered because of the dhimmi status that ... Read more

    36,88 €

  • Plundering the Egyptians

    The Old Testament and Historical Criticism at Westminster Theological Seminary (1929-1998)

    by John J. Yeo ...
    Plundering the Egyptians focuses on the study of the Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary from 1929 to 1998. More specifically, it presents the lives and academic labors of Robert Dick Wilson (1929-1930), Edward Joseph Young (1936-1968), Raymond Bryan Dillard (1969-1993), and Tremper Longman III (1981-1998). These featured scholars were highly influential in changing the shape of Old ... Read more

    42,28 €

  • The Whole Megilla

    Reading the Tractate on the Scroll of Esther in the Babylonian Talmud

    by Joshua A. Fogel ...
    The Babylonia Talmud is an immense collection of laws, practices, and customs of the Jewish people, edited in its present form in the fifth century. Tractate Megilla (literally, ‘scroll’) concerns a deep exegesis of the history and customs of the holiday of Purim, when the Jewish people in ancient Persia were saved through the intervention of Queen Esther at the last minute from extermination by ... Read more

    27,44 €

  • Ethical Issues in the Abraham Narrative

    by Eryl W. Davies ...
    Series series The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
    Eryl W. Davies enhances understanding of the ethical issues embedded in the stories concerning Abraham in Genesis 12-25.He focuses on the ethics of deception in Gen. 12:10-20 and 20:1-18 and the 'dark side' of the character of God, as revealed in stories such as the binding of Isaac in Gen. 22, while also considering how the writings of philosophers such as Kant, Kierkegaard and Habermas ... Read more

    85,74 €