Download Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism, Eighth Series: by Jacob Neusner PDF

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

"Rabbi Safran’s compelling e-book in regards to the have to include the conventional view of modesty if we're to save lots of our youngsters from the superficiality, the decadence and the harmful impacts of our smooth, “progressive” society, opens with an easy query, “What can an Orthodox rabbi inform me approximately my childrens 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 realizing of priestly literature has been Jacob Milgrom (1923–2010), whose seminal articles, provocative hypotheses, and comprehensively probing books drastically increased and considerably altered scholarship relating to 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 specializes in the bases of ethics within the Qumran neighborhood, utilizing the texts it amassed because the fundamental proof. He starts off via evaluating the moral language of the Scrolls with different similar literatures, then locations the dialogue in a old framework in response to contemporary 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 used to be no longer regularly the case. The Torah turned the touchstone for many of Judaism’s adherents in simple terms within the fingers of the rabbis of past due antiquity. For six hundred years past, from the Babylonian Exile to the Roman destruction of the second one Temple, there has been huge, immense edition within the means the Torah used to be understood.