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While Scripture is at the center of many religions, among them Islam and Christianity, this book inquires into the function, development, and implications of the centrality of text upon the Jewish community, and by extension on the larger question of canonization and the text-centered community. It is a commonplace to note how the landless and scattered Jewish communities have, from the time of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. until the founding of modern Israel in 1948, cleaved to the text and derived their identity from it. But the story is far more complex. The...

This book explores the phenomenon of Saturnism, namely the belief that the planet Saturn, the seventh known planet in ancient astrology, was appointed upon the Jews, who celebrated the Sabbath, the seventh day of the Jewish week.
Moshe Idel details how the anonymous, late 14th century Sefer Ha-Peliyah was to have disturbing consequences in the Jewish world three centuries later, interweaving luminaries with the cultural, historical, religious, and philosophical concepts of their day, and demonstrating how cultural agents were inadvertently instrumental in the mid-17th-century...

Der immerwährende Krieg - und wie er enden könnte

Von Generation zu Generation wird der Krieg in Palästina weitergetragen. Nach der jüngsten und schlimmsten Eskalation durch den Terrorangriff der Hamas macht sich Hoffnungslosigkeit breit: Wird das immer so weitergehen? Nein, sagt Moshe Zimmermann, der große liberale Historiker. 

Schonungslos - und nicht ohne Bitterkeit - benennt er zunächst die Schuldigen an der Katastrophe: Da ist die Hamas, die Gewalt als einziges Mittel der Politik sieht und Israel auslöschen will. Da sind aber auch die jüdischen Siedler,...

Moshe Aberbach (1924-2007) was a leading educator and scholar in Jewish studies, specialising in the field of Jewish education in the talmudic period. This book draws on a representative selection of his writings over a fifty year period, and includes essays on Saadia Gaon and Maimonides, coverage of biblical and talmudic studies, and discussions of the roots of religious anti-Zionism and of the Lubavitch messianic movement in the context of similar movements in Jewish history.

Focusing on the history of Jewish education and linking the Roman destruction of the Jewish state in 70...