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Blacks in the Jewish Mind
Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the subject of Black Americans reveals about Jewish identity in the U.S. Why did American Jews get involved in Black causes in the first place? Wha…
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A Conceptual Commentary on Midrash Leviticus Rabbah : Value Concepts in Jewis…
In this book Kadushin offers a running commentary on sections of Leviticus Rabbah. His goal is not only to explicate individual sections of this Late Antique midrashic work, but also to highlight the basic conceptual framework within which the rabbis worked. Kadushin's commentary highlights the indeterminacy of belief and the genuine emphatic trends that distinguish rabbinic Judaism while also …
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- 9781946527233
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- 271 hlm
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A History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods
This study analyzes the history of the festival of Sukkot during the second temple and rabbinic periods. While the Jerusalem temple stood, Sukkot was the preeminent festival and primary pilgrimage. The cult observed the festal week with sacrifices, processions, fertility rites and other temple rituals. The destruction of the second temple in 70 CE left rabbinic Judaism with the question of how …
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- 9781946527271
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- 375 hlm
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Aftermath
Aftermath: Genocide, Memory and History examines how genocide is remembered and represented in both popular and scholarly memory, integrating scholarship on the Holocaust with the study of other genocides through a comparative framework. Scholars from a range of disciplines re-evaluate narratives of past conflict to explore how memory of genocide is mobilised in the aftermath, tracing the devel…
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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.
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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.
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A Wise and Discerning Mind
This is an edited volume of essays dealing with the Hebrew Bible and its cultural environment.
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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 …
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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…
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- 9789004277113
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- 436 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 110
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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…
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- 9789004512061
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- 352 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 139
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