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This text compares the Samaritan Torah with the Hebrew Masoretic Torah in the original language. The Samaritan Torah is reported with Hebrew characters. Both texts are written in the ancient version……続きを見る

This text compares the Samaritan Torah with the Hebrew Masoretic Torah in the original language. The Samaritan Torah is reported with Hebrew characters. Both texts are written in the ancient version……続きを見る

This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective. In this context, it offers a scholarly attempt to understand how the ancient J……続きを見る

The sacred tales and aphorisms collected here by Martin Buber have their origins in the traditional Hasidic metaphor of life as a ladder, reaching towards the divine by ascending rungs of perfection……続きを見る

Das Buch Bereschit wird als das „Buch der Rechtssatzungen“ betitelt, wie der Talmud erklärt: „Es ist das Buch der Erzväter, welche auf dem rechten Wege wandelten.“ Das 1. Buch Mose, hebräisch בְּרֵא……続きを見る

Le Livre de la Genèse est le premier livre de la Bible. En hébreu, le livre s'intitule ספר בראשית, Sefer Bereshit, ce qui signifie « Livre "au commencement" ». Ce récit des origines est ainsi fondam……続きを見る

Le Livre de l'Exode est le second livre de la Torah et du Tankah. Son titre originel en hébreu est Shemot, littéralement « les Noms ». Il raconte l'exode hors d'Egypte des Hébreux sous la conduite d……続きを見る

Vayiqra désigne en hébreu le Livre du Lévitique, troisième Livre de la Torah et du Tanakh. Il doit son nom au terme « lévite », prêtre hébreu issu de la tribu de Lévi. Il parle des devoirs sacerdota……続きを見る

Le Deutéronome, intitulé en hébreu Devarim qui signifie "Paroles", est le dernier livre de la Torah ainsi que le cinquième livre de la Bible hébraïque. Il contient le récit des derniers discours de ……続きを見る

Le Livre des Nombres est le quatrième livre de la Torah. Il est intitulé en hébreu « Bamidbar », ce qui signifie : « Dans le désert ». Ce livre regroupe tous les éléments qui ont pris place entre la……続きを見る

In this book, Shmuel Peerless, a long-time student of Nechama Leibowitz's, systematically presents the respected scholar's unique approach to Torah instruction, organizing some of her methodological……続きを見る

This collection makes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ brilliant essays on the weekly Torah portion available in book form for the first time. Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy and literat……続きを見る

The Jewish nation begins with a collection of twelve brothers and half-brothers, linked through their father, Jacob. From these close familiar beginnings, each develops into a distinct tribe, with u……続きを見る

Unbinding Isaac takes readers on a trek of discovery for our times into the binding of Isaac story. Nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard viewed the story as teaching suspension of……続きを見る

Understanding the sacred text has been a wonderful yet elusive challenge through the ages. This book is a reading of the Bible, accessible to readers of all backgrounds and levels of familiarity wit……続きを見る

Before Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King was identified with Moses, African Americans identified those who challenged racial oppression in America with Samson. In Black Samson: The Untold Story o……続きを見る

The Talmud's Red Fence explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighboring Sasanian religious texts were animated by difference and differentiation. It ……続きを見る

Found in Translation is at once a themed volume on the translation of ancient Jewish texts and a Festschrift for Leonard J. Greenspoon, the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor in Jewish Civiliza……続きを見る

Samuel Lebens takes the three principles of Jewish faith, as proposed by Rabbi Joseph Albo (1380-1444), in order to scrutinize and refine them with the toolkit of contemporary analytic philosophy. W……続きを見る

Hermetics is a religious, philosophical, and esoteric practice based around the beliefs and writings of the pagan priest Hermes Trismegistus. Influential for its distinct beliefs and characteristics……続きを見る

This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their……続きを見る

This collection of essays seeks to demonstrate that many biblical authors deliberately used Classical and Hellenistic Greek texts for inspiration when crafting many of the narratives in the Primary ……続きを見る

Quoting Derrida, in The Animal at Unease with Itself: Death Anxiety and the Animal-Human Boundary in Genesis 2–3 Isaac M. Alderman draws attention to the fact that humans are the only animals who ar……続きを見る

Moral injury has developed in earnest since 2009 within psychology and military studies, especially through work with veterans of the U.S. military’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A major part of th……続きを見る

This book explores the story of the Israelites' worship of the Golden Calf in its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim contexts, from ancient Israel to the emergence of Islam. It focuses in particular on t……続きを見る

The Qur'an is the inimitable and direct Word of God. It was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad over twenty-three years, who faithfully transmitted it to humanity in the seventh century. Since then the……続きを見る

The book of Jubilees was written by a Jewish author in the second century BCE. Although no original copies of the manuscript remain, the fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls confirmed the general acc……続きを見る

In the Seat of Moses offers readers a unique, frank, and penetrating analysis of the rise of rabbinic Judaism in the late Roman period. Over time and through masterly rhetorical strategy, rabbinic w……続きを見る

Jewish Bible Translations is the first book to examine Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to our day. It is an overdue corrective of an important story that has been regularly omit……続きを見る

In this book, Brett Maiden employs the tools, research, and theories from the cognitive science of religion to explore religious thought and behavior in ancient Israel. His study focuses on a key se……続きを見る