Judaism: theology books

In his now classic Two Powers in Heaven, Alan Segal examines rabbinic evidence about early manifestations of the...  Read More >>

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. - Claremont) under the title: Q, the Essenes, and the Dead Sea...  Read More >>

This is the first complete English translation of Rav Chayyim of Volozhin's Neffesh Ha-chayyim. Rav Chayyim was...  Read More >>

This book presents a critical edition and translation of Salmon b. Yeroham’s Judaeo-Arabic commentary on Qohelet....  Read More >>

Raphael Shuchat presents the reader with some of the main and timeless issues of Jewish philosophy over the ages...  Read More >>

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Early Judaism and early Christianity emerged during the Hellenistic and early Roman imperial era. They were, naturally,...  Read More >>

Digging through History follows rabbi and archaeologist Richard Freund's journey through some of the most fascinating...  Read More >>

Revised and expanded thesis (Ph.D.) - Duke University, Durham, NC, 2008.  Read More >>

Revised thesis (Ph.D.) - Bangor University (North Wales), 2011.  Read More >>

How does the “medieval” function as a bearer of Jewish identity in a changing secular world? Each chapter in Encountering...  Read More >>

Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza - as...  Read More >>

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In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen...  Read More >>

A powerful memoir chronicling the life of one of America's most celebrated rabbis-from his youth in the shadows...  Read More >>

Holy War in Judaism is the first book to consider how the concept of ''holy war'' disappeared from Jewish thought...  Read More >>

Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked...  Read More >>

Demonstrating that the supposed irreconcilability of modern, critical biblical scholarship and traditional Judaism...  Read More >>

Debate and disputation are not only encouraged within Judaism but reside at the very heart of Jewish history and...  Read More >>

Deftly weaving literary analysis of the biblical text with selected teachings of classical Jewish commentary, Passages...  Read More >>

Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought...  Read More >>

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This collection of essays draws on work done in 2011–¬2012. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis...  Read More >>

Author of Ideen zur Philosophie der Kultur (1910) and Der moralische Gott (1922), among other works, Koigen enters...  Read More >>

The sabbatical year law in Lv 25,1 7 stipulates the rest of the land and includes foreigners in the list of the...  Read More >>