Judaism: sacred texts books

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The Documentary Hypothesis, which in the 20th century was the standard theory to explain the development of the...  Read More >>

The book investigates omissions in the textual transmission of the Hebrew scriptures. Literary criticism (Literarkritik)...  Read More >>

One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning...  Read More >>

Discusses various conceptions of family and kinship in the context of deuterocanonical literature. After analyzing...  Read More >>

No longer confined to traditional institutions devoted to Talmudic studies, havruta work, or the practice of students...  Read More >>

Avodah is the first major translation of one of the most important genres of the lost literature of the ancient...  Read More >>

The mystery surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls remains, over 60 years after their rediscovery. Who hid them and why?...  Read More >>

Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site in the project of modernity, this...  Read More >>

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The story of Abraham smashing his father's idols might be the most important Jewish story ever told and the key...  Read More >>

In The Genizah Psalms David M. Stec presents an edition of the Hebrew text of MS 798 of the Antonin Collection together...  Read More >>

The Hekhalot literature is a motley collection of Hebrew and Aramaic documents dealing with mystical themes pertaining...  Read More >>

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Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has...  Read More >>

A new approach introducing Kabbalah as a spiritual Jewish way of living, not merely a religious phenomenon. Argues...  Read More >>

Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late...  Read More >>

This volume offers the first critical edition, accompanied with English translation and commentary, of Sefer ha-Moladot,...  Read More >>

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The study of midrash the biblical exegesis, parables, and anecdotes of the Rabbis has enjoyed a renaissance in recent...  Read More >>

The Iranian Talmud reexamines the Babylonian Talmud--one of Judaism's most central texts--in the light of Persian...  Read More >>

Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. This volume focuses on signal moments in the...  Read More >>

The wisdom tradition of ancient Israel, represented in the Hebrew Bible by Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes and in...  Read More >>

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