Download Crossing The Boundary: Stories of Jewish Leaders of Other by Alan Levin PDF

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

"Rabbi Safran’s compelling ebook concerning the have to contain the conventional view of modesty if we're to avoid wasting our kids from the superficiality, the decadence and the dangerous affects of our glossy, “progressive” society, opens with an easy query, “What can an Orthodox rabbi inform me approximately my teenagers 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 figuring out of priestly literature has been Jacob Milgrom (1923–2010), whose seminal articles, provocative hypotheses, and comprehensively probing books significantly 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 method to reexamine a long-neglected topic. instead of the contents of ethics, the writer specializes in the bases of ethics within the Qumran group, utilizing the texts it amassed because the fundamental proof. He starts through evaluating the moral language of the Scrolls with different comparable literatures, then locations the dialogue in a historic 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. in spite of the fact that, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this used to be no longer consistently the case. The Torah grew to become the touchstone for many of Judaism’s adherents in simple terms 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 version within the approach the Torah was once understood.