Judaism: sacred texts books

The Mishnah is the first canonical writing of Judaism after the Hebrew Scriptures of ancient Israel (the Old Testament)...  Read More >>

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Here is a superb resource for all who wish to deepen their understanding of Judaism and Christianity and the relationship...  Read More >>

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Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? Paleographical dating has tended to downplay the Scrolls' importance and to distance...  Read More >>

A leading scholar of the formative age and writings of Judaism here formulates a theory of the Mishnah (one of the...  Read More >>

This brief history of Judaism not only seeks to tell the story of Judaism (or of Judaisms) but to define it in such...  Read More >>

Text in English and Hebrew; commentary in English.  Read More >>

This book provides a unique and new perspective on the formative years of rabbinic Judaism and will be essential...  Read More >>

My purpose in these Lectures is to give a short history, as clear as I can make it, of the Religion of the Old Testament....  Read More >>

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For nearly half a century, the Aramaic version of Job found amongst the scrolls at Qumran has been celebrated as...  Read More >>

Rav Hershel Schachter's notes from when he was a student in Rav Soloveitchik's shiur. Published at Rav Schachter's...  Read More >>

The central theme of Making Gods Word Work is that, throughout the rules and norms of the Mishnah, and beneath their...  Read More >>

The Mishnah is the crown jewel of Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age, so says the distinguished author of this...  Read More >>

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This study applies form criticism to the stories of the earliest rabbinic midrashim. The author sets forth, in positive...  Read More >>

Demonstrates that there is a flourishing mythology in Judaism, which first emerges in the Bible and continues to...  Read More >>