A Wise and Discerning Mind: Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long

An edited volume of essays dealing with the Hebrew Bible and its cultural environment.

A Wise and Discerning Mind: Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long

An edited volume of essays dealing with the Hebrew Bible and its cultural environment.

A Wise and Discerning Mind

This is an edited volume of essays dealing with the Hebrew Bible and its cultural environment.

Handbuch Deutschsprachig-j dische Literatur seit der Aufkl rung Bd. 3: Sprach…

Das Handbuch bietet eine anhand von 6 Paradigmen entfaltete Darstellung deutschsprachig-jüdischer Literatur seit der Aufklärung. Ausgangspunkt ist die These, dass jüdisches Denken und deutschsprachig-jüdische Literatur nicht primär assimilatorisch an literarischen und wissenschaftlichen Entwicklungen im deutschsprachigen Raum partizipierten, sondern diese in dialogischer Weise und Impulse …

Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic = iterature Their Status and R…

Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles portrays the tension between the unity of husband and wife and their different legal and social status from a wide range of perspectives, as deduced from the texts of the three corpora. The volume discusses the related topics of divorce, polygamy, woman’s obligations to fulfill precepts, membership in the communi…

War Traditions from the Qumran Caves : Re-Thinking Textual Stability and Flui…

In this volume, Hanna Vanonen offers a fresh view to the Milhamah and Sefer ha-Milhamah manuscripts by producing a thorough close-reading analysis of them, paying attention not only to their contents but also to manuscripts as material artifacts. Vanonen demonstrates that studying the stability and instability of the War traditions does more justice to the complex material than a traditional ch…

Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran = Essays from …

The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran have attracted increasing interest in recent years. These texts predate the “sectarian” Dead Sea scrolls, and they are contemporary with the youngest parts of the Hebrew Bible. They offer a unique glimpse into the situation before the biblical canons were closed. Their highly creative Jewish authors reshaped and rewrote biblical traditions to cope wi…

The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9789004537798

Collation

200 hlm; ill., lamp.,

Series Title

Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 143

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The Power of Parables = Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish and Christi…

The Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life. This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their audience, which has since been reduced by centuries of preaching and repetition. Not only do parables enhance the perspective on Scripture or the kingdom of heaven, they also c…

A Philosophy of Israel Education

This book develops a new philosophy of Israel education. “Person-centered” Israel education is concerned with developing in individual learners the ability to understand and make rational, emotional, and ethical decisions about Israel, and about the challenges Israel regularly faces, whether they be existential, spiritual, democratic, humanitarian, national, etc. Chazan begins by laying out…