Seeking the Path to Life: Theological Meditations on God and the Nature of People, Love, Life and Death
ISBN: 9781683362852 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Short, carefully crafted, gentle meditations take us on explorations of the most basic human struggles. For people who never thought they would read a book of theology-let alone understand it, enjoy it, savor it and have it affect their lives.
Short, carefully crafted, gentle meditations take us on explorations of the most basic human struggles. For people who never thought they would read a...
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115,91 zł |
Aspects of Rabbinic Theology: Including the Original Preface of 1909 & the Introduction by Louis Finkelstein
ISBN: 9781681629803 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The classic statement of the ideas which form the religious consciousness of the Jewish people at large, by one of the great minds of Jewish scholarship of our century. His creative scholarship, compelling English style, and warm personality have given this book lasting influence on Jew and non-Jew alike. Includes the original preface of 1909 and the introduction by Louis Finkelstein. The classic statement of the ideas which form the religious consciousness of the Jewish people at large, by one of the great minds of Jewish schola... |
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171,74 zł |
A Guide Through the Narrow Gate
ISBN: 9781942451372 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Words of Yahweh have been translated, interpreted and changed to meet the ever changing viewpoints of theologians and scholars for centuries. Far to often, the original meaning was lost or misinterpreted. The only way to understand the true Words is to examine in detail the texts as they originally appeared. Drawing on extensive research, Raphayl Israyl Miles looks at the original meaning and context of what was truly said by Yahweh. With extensive source notation and citations, the reader can learn more about the material cited by the author. Raphayl Israyl Miles, was... The Words of Yahweh have been translated, interpreted and changed to meet the ever changing viewpoints of theologians and scholars for centuries. F... |
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'Now I Know' Five Centuries of Aqedah Exegesis
ISBN: 9783319475202 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes how medieval Jewish Bible scholars sought to answer the question of what is meant by the Angel's message from God to Abraham: 'Now I Know', as written in Genesis 22 verse 12. It examines these scholars' comments on the nineteen verses in Genesis that tell the story of Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his own son Isaac, the Aqedat Yiṣḥaq. It explores the answers they found to the question of what, indeed, this story is trying to tell us. Is it a drastic way to condemn the practice of child sacrifice? Does it call for replacing human sacrifices with animal... This book describes how medieval Jewish Bible scholars sought to answer the question of what is meant by the Angel's message from God to Abraham: '... |
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544,74 zł |
Holiness and Transgression: Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth
ISBN: 9781618115607 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume deals with the female dynasty of the House of David and its influence on the Jewish Messianic Myth. It provides a missing link in the chain of research on the topic of messianism and contributes to the understanding of the connection between female transgression and redemption, from the Bible through Rabbinic literature until the Zohar. The discussion of the centrality of the mother image in Judeo-Christian culture and the parallels between the appearance of Mary in the Gospels and the Davidic Mothers in the Hebrew Bible, stresses mutual representations of "the mother of the...
This volume deals with the female dynasty of the House of David and its influence on the Jewish Messianic Myth. It provides a missing link in the chai...
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416,82 zł |
I, You, and the Word "God": Finding Meaning in the Song of Songs
ISBN: 9781575064758 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Sedaqa and Torah in Postexilic Discourse
ISBN: 9780567673558 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The chapters in this volume clarify crucial aspects of Torah by exploring its relationship to sedaqa (righteousness). Observing the Torah is often considered to be the main identity-marker of Israel in the post-exilic period. However, sedaqa is also widely used as a force of group cohesion and as a resource for ethics without references to torah. The contributors to this volume explore these crucial themes for the post-exilic period, and show how they are related in the key texts that feature them. Though torah and sedaqa can have some aspects in common, especially when they are... The chapters in this volume clarify crucial aspects of Torah by exploring its relationship to sedaqa (righteousness). Observing the Torah is often ... |
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The Heart of Torah, Volume 2: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
ISBN: 9780827613003 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays - two for each weekly portion -open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. Held mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world literature, and astute commentators of other religious backgrounds to ponder fundamental questions about God, human nature, and what it means to be a religious person in the modern world.
In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays - two for each weekly portion -open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. Held mines Talmu...
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107,15 zł |
Jewish Christianity
ISBN: 9781532613197 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Effective interpretation views the New Testament in historical perspective. In this expository survey of Acts i to xii, James, I and II Peter, Jude, and Hebrews, the author treats these portions of the New Testament as the life and literature which developed from the original disciples of Jesus and their Jewish followers. The work is designed for the average student of the English New Testament.
Effective interpretation views the New Testament in historical perspective. In this expository survey of Acts i to xii, James, I and II Peter, Jude, a...
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128,84 zł |
Jewish Christianity
ISBN: 9781532613203 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Effective interpretation views the New Testament in historical perspective. In this expository survey of Acts i to xii, James, I and II Peter, Jude, and Hebrews, the author treats these portions of the New Testament as the life and literature which developed from the original disciples of Jesus and their Jewish followers. The work is designed for the average student of the English New Testament.
Effective interpretation views the New Testament in historical perspective. In this expository survey of Acts i to xii, James, I and II Peter, Jude, a...
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214,73 zł |
The Kabbalah (Routledge Revivals): Its Doctrines, Development, and Literature
ISBN: 9781138821361 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1925, Christian D. Ginsburg examines the origins of the system of religious philosophy, the Kabbalah, and its influence on Judaism. Ginsburg also explores the ways in which academics have approached the Kabbalah, with a detailed timeline of their findings.
Originally published in 1925, Christian D. Ginsburg examines the origins of the system of religious philosophy, the Kabbalah, and its influence on Jud...
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Olam He-Zeh V'Olam Ha-Ba: This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice
ISBN: 9781557537928 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among the topics authors address in this wide-ranging account of how Jews have conceptualized the world to come and structured their lives in this world accordingly. Some authorities portrayed the afterlife as an endless round of feasting and drinking of chazerie that would put the fanciest Las Vegas buffets to shame. There were visionaries who mapped out otherworldly climes populated by monstrous creatures. Others, decidedly more staid, saw the world to come as a location where...Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among the topics authors address in th... |
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216,73 zł |
Hasidism: A New History
ISBN: 9780691175157 / Angielski / Twarda / 896 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement's leaders as well as its followers, and demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to the secular world. Hasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on... The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism This is the first comprehensive history of the pi... |
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Joseph Albo on Free Choice: Exegetical Innovation in Medieval Jewish Philosophy
ISBN: 9780190684426 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scripture is replete with narratives that challenge a variety of philosophical concepts; including morality, divine benevolence, and human freedom. Free choice, a significant and much debated concept in medieval philosophy, continues to be of great interest to contemporary philosophers and others. However, scholarship in biblical studies has primarily focused on compositional history, philology, and literary analysis, not on the examination of the philosophy implied in biblical texts. In this book, Shira Weiss focuses on the Hebrew Bible's encounter with the philosophical notion of free...
Scripture is replete with narratives that challenge a variety of philosophical concepts; including morality, divine benevolence, and human freedom. Fr...
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A Story of Yhwh: Cultural Translation and Subversive Reception in Israelite History
ISBN: 9781138641471 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Evil, Fallenness, and Finitude
ISBN: 9783319570860 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection addresses the perennial philosophical and theological issues of human finitude and the potentiality for evil. The contributors approach these issues from perspectives in Continental philosophy relating to phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, rabbinical traditions, drawing upon the work of Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, and Paul Ricoeur. While centering on the traditional theme of theodicy, this volume is also oriented to the phenomenology of religion, with contributions across religions and intellectual traditions. This collection addresses the perennial philosophical and theological issues of human finitude and the potentiality for evil. The contributors appr... |
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An Early History of Compassion: Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism
ISBN: 9781107146266 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Early History of Compassion explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism.
An Early History of Compassion explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism.
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439,15 zł |
Holiness in Jewish Thought
ISBN: 9780198796497 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Holiness is a challenge for contemporary Jewish thought. The concept of holiness is crucial to religious discourse in general and to Jewish discourse in particular. "Holiness" seems to express an important feature of religious thought and of religious ways of life. Yet the concept is ill defined. This collection explores what concepts of holiness were operative in different periods of Jewish history and bodies of Jewish literature and offers preliminary reflections on their theological and philosophical import today. The contributors illumine some of the major episodes concerning holiness in...
Holiness is a challenge for contemporary Jewish thought. The concept of holiness is crucial to religious discourse in general and to Jewish discourse ...
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499,33 zł |
The Jewish Encounter with Hinduism: History, Spirituality, Identity
ISBN: 9781349576104 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hinduism has become a vital 'other' for Judaism over the past decades. The book surveys the history of the relationship from historical to contemporary times, from travellers to religious leadership. It explores the potential enrichment for Jewish theology and spirituality, as well as the challenges for Jewish identity.
Hinduism has become a vital 'other' for Judaism over the past decades. The book surveys the history of the relationship from historical to contemporar...
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108,92 zł |
Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature
ISBN: 9780198811381 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work considers a series of Jewish stories that describe cruxes in the history of the Hasmonean revolt and the Hasmonean kingdom, embedded both in the narrative of Flavius Josephus and in the halakhic-exegetical compositions of rabbinic literature.
This work considers a series of Jewish stories that describe cruxes in the history of the Hasmonean revolt and the Hasmonean kingdom, embedded both in...
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477,69 zł |