Filter by
Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Era Essays in Intellectual History
Between the years 1550 and 1650, Italy's Jewish intellectuals created a unique and enduring synthesis of the great literary and philosophical heritage of the Andalusian Jews and the Renaissance`s renewal of perspective. While remaining faithful to the beliefs, behaviors, and language of their tradition, Italian Jews proved themselves open to a rapidly evolving world of great richness. The crisi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781618112088
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Exemplary Bodies Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008
Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008 explores the construction of the Jew’s physical and ontological body in Russian culture as represented in literature, film, and non-literary texts from the 1880s to the present. With the rise of the dominance of biological and racialist discourse in the 1880s, the depiction of Jewish characters in Russian literary and cu…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781934843390
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Crafting the 613 Commandments Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification,…
Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegemenon to the Mishneh Torah, his monumental code of law. This book explores the surprising way Maimonides put this tradition to use and his possible r…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781618111678
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Advancing the Learning Agenda in Jewish Education BOOK 2018 Advancing the …
Jewish educational projects and programs are thriving, attracting philanthropic support for exciting and creative approaches in every sector and setting. But underneath that energy, we are not as clear as we ought to be about desired outcomes, the kinds of learning needed to achieve these, and how those kinds of learning actually occur. This volume is the first of its kind to bring together sch…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781644692837
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Valediction of Moses A Proto-Biblical Book
Moses Wilhelm Shapira's infamous Deuteronomy fragments - long believed to be forgeries - are authentic ancient manuscripts, and they are of far greater significance than ever imagined. The literary work that these manuscripts preserve - which Idan Dershowitz calls "The Valediction of Moses" or "V" - is not based on the book of Deuteronomy. On the contrary, V is a much earlier version of Deutero…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783161606458
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Torah, Temple, Land Constructions of Judaism in Antiquity
The present volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in October 2018 at Humboldt University Berlin. The articles reflect the different categories of describing Judaism of the Second Temple Period in view of their sustainability in characterising an ancient religious community in different historical situations and discuss relevant (re)constructions of ancient Judaism in the history …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783161598548
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination Synesius, De insommniis
Synesius' essay De insomniis ('On Dreams') inquires into the meaning and importance of dreams for human beings and treats themes - most of all the relationship of humans to higher spheres -, which for religiously- and philosophically-minded people are still important today.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783161524196
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Cosmic Order and Divine Power Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Cosmos
The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783161528095
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Banned Birds The Birds of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14
The dietary prohibitions in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 represent one of the most detailed textual overlaps in the Pentateuch between the Priestly material and Deuteronomy. This is especially the case for the birds: their identities are shrouded in mystery and the reasons for their prohibition debated. Peter Altmann attempts to break this impasse by setting these flyers within the broader c…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783161581632
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Apostasy and Jewish identity in High Middle Ages Northern Europe 'Are You St…
The attitude of Jews living in the medieval Christian world to Jews who converted to Christianity or to Christians seeking to join the Jewish faith reflects the central traits that make up Jewish self-identification. The Jews saw themselves as a unique group chosen by God, who expected them to play a specific and unique role in the world. This study researches fully for the first time the vario…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780719095771
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography