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

"Rabbi Safran’s compelling publication concerning the have to comprise the conventional view of modesty if we're to save lots of our kids from the superficiality, the decadence and the harmful affects of our smooth, “progressive” society, opens with an easy query, “What can an Orthodox rabbi inform me approximately my youngsters or my existence?

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 realizing of priestly literature has been Jacob Milgrom (1923–2010), whose seminal articles, provocative hypotheses, and comprehensively probing books enormously multiplied 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 technique 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 gathered because the fundamental proof. He starts off by way of evaluating the moral language of the Scrolls with different similar literatures, then areas the dialogue in a old framework according to fresh findings.

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

Most folk comprehend Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. although, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was once now not continually the case. The Torah turned the touchstone for many of Judaism’s adherents purely within the palms of the rabbis of overdue antiquity. For six hundred years earlier, from the Babylonian Exile to the Roman destruction of the second one Temple, there has been huge, immense edition within the approach the Torah was once understood.