Download An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism: History and by Lester L. Grabbe PDF

Sometimes You ARE What You Wear! :The Traditional Jewish View of Modesty

"Rabbi Safran’s compelling booklet concerning the have to comprise the normal view of modesty if we're to save lots of our kids from the superficiality, the decadence and the dangerous impacts of our sleek, “progressive” society, opens with an easy query, “What can an Orthodox rabbi inform me approximately my young ones or my lifestyles?

Current Issues in Priestly and Related Literature: The Legacy of Jacob Milgrom and Beyond (Resources for Biblical Study Book 82)

New instructions and clean perception for students and studentsThe unmarried maximum catalyst and contributor to our constructing knowing of priestly literature has been Jacob Milgrom (1923–2010), whose seminal articles, provocative hypotheses, and comprehensively probing books tremendously improved and considerably altered scholarship concerning priestly and comparable literature.

Ethics in the Qumran Community: An Interdisciplinary Investigation (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament / 2. Reihe)

Marcus Tso makes use of an interdisciplinary method to reexamine a long-neglected topic. instead of the contents of ethics, the writer makes a speciality of the bases of ethics within the Qumran neighborhood, utilizing the texts it accrued because the basic facts. He starts off by means of evaluating the moral language of the Scrolls with different similar literatures, then locations the dialogue in a old framework in response to fresh findings.

The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul (Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies)

Most folks comprehend Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. besides the fact that, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was once now not continually the case. The Torah grew to become the touchstone for many of Judaism’s adherents merely within the palms of the rabbis of overdue antiquity. For six hundred years past, from the Babylonian Exile to the Roman destruction of the second one Temple, there has been huge, immense version within the manner the Torah used to be understood.