Category: Judaism

By Emma Williams

ISBN-10: 1566567890

ISBN-13: 9781566567893

A deeply affecting memoir and a different contribution to our knowing of the Palestinian-Israeli conflictIn August 2000 Emma Williams arrived along with her 3 babies in Jerusalem to affix her husband and to paintings as a physician. A month later, the second one Palestinian intifada erupted. For the subsequent 3 years, she was once to witness an dazzling sequence of occasions during which millions of lives, together with her personal, have been grew to become upside down.

Williams lived at the very border of East and West Jerusalem, operating with Palestinians in Ramallah in the course of the day and spending evenings with Israelis in Tel Aviv. Weaving own tales and conversations with associates and associates into the lengthy and fraught political history, Williams' strong memoir brings to lifestyles the realities of the Palestinian-Israeli clash. She vividly recollects giving start to her fourth baby throughout the siege of Bethlehem and her horror whilst a suicide bomber blew his personal head into the schoolyard...

By Gershom Scholem, Klaus Ottmann

ISBN-10: 0882145665

ISBN-13: 9780882145662

Newly revised moment printing. Translated by means of KLAUS OTTMANN. A groundbreaking textual content on alchemy through the top pupil of Jewish mysticism is gifted the following for the 1st time in English translation. Scholem seems severely on the connections among alchemy, the Jewish Kabbalah; its christianized kinds, corresponding to the gold- and rosicrucian mysticisms, and the myth-based psychology of C.G. Jung, and uncovers forgotten alchemical roots embedded within the Kabbalah.

By C. Fred Alford

ISBN-10: 0511650752

ISBN-13: 9780511650758

ISBN-10: 0521747066

ISBN-13: 9780521747066

ISBN-10: 052176632X

ISBN-13: 9780521766326

The Holocaust marks a decisive second in glossy pain within which it turns into virtually most unlikely to discover that means or redemption within the adventure. during this learn, C. Fred Alford bargains a brand new and considerate exam of the adventure of ache. relocating from the e-book of task, an account of significant ache in a God-drenched international, to the paintings of Primo Levi, who tried to discover that means within the Holocaust via absolute readability of perception, he concludes that neither approach works good in ultra-modern global. more suitable are the daily coping practices of a few survivors. Drawing on tales of survivors from the Fortunoff Video files, Alford additionally applies the paintings of Julia Kristeva and the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicot to his exam of a subject that has been and remains to be crucial to human event.

By Michael E. Stone

ISBN-10: 0802866360

ISBN-13: 9780802866363

By Lenn E. Goodman

ISBN-10: 0791413403

ISBN-13: 9780791413401

This e-book offers basically with the matter of the only and the various. the issues of construction, of evil, of revelation, and of ethics are all handled as specified situations of the overall challenge of referring to the finite to the limitless, the numerous to the single. The authors concentrate on the unifying subject of mediation, the skill wherein absolutely the pertains to the right here and now. The important figures studied contain Philo, Plotinus, Iamblichus, Isaac Israeli, Avicenna, Ibn Gabirol, Al-Ghazali, Abraham Ibn Daud, Maimonides, Averroes, Albertus Magnus, Aquinas, Gersonides, Nahmanides, Ibn Falaquera, Narboni, Albalag, Leone Ebreo (Judah Abarbanel), and Spinoza, in addition to such Kabbalistic thinkers as Bahir, Cordovero, Luria, Moses de Leon, Ya'akov ben Sheshet, Isaac the Blind, Menahem Renanti, Shem Tov ben Shem Tov, Azriel of Gerona, Alemanno, Luzzato, Cordovero, and Abraham Herrera.

The authors comprise David Winston, John Dillon, Carl Mathis, Bernard McGinn, Arthur Hyman, Alfred Ivry, Lenn E. Goodman, Menachem Kellner, David Burrell, Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, David Bleich, Seymour Feldman, Steven Katz, Moshe Idel, David Novak, Hubert Dethier, Richard Popkin, and Robert McLaren. Taken jointly, those essays provide a powerful old survey of the tips, achievements, and philosophic struggles of a bunch of guys who labored to shape a distinct and sturdy culture that bridged the space among rival confessions and sects--mystics, rationalists, and empiricists; Jews, Christians, and Muslims. it is a philosophic resource whose power isn't but exhausted.

By Dan Cohn-Sherbok

ISBN-10: 0826480403

ISBN-13: 9780826480408

From Abraham to Saul Bellow, from Moses Maimonides to Woody Allen, from the Baal Shem Tov to Albert Einstein, this accomplished dictionary of Jewish biographies offers a primary element of access into the interesting richness of the Jewish background. Modelled at the hugely acclaimed Dictionary of Christian Biography (Continuum 2001) and with the recommendation of major Jewish students, the Dictionary of Jewish Biography presents a fast connection with these Jewish women and men who've, over the past 4 thousand years, contributed to the lifetime of the Jewish humans and the heritage of the Jewish faith. This dictionary will end up crucial for normal readers drawn to the evolution of Judaism from precedent days to the current day, an ideal research reduction for college students and lecturers. Designed as an obtainable reference device, this quantity is an fundamental consultant for an individual drawn to the heritage of the Jewish humans - the uninitiated becomes initiated; the curious turns into educated; the proficient will now have a convenient reference software.

By Elliot K. Ginsburg, Meir ibn Gabbai

The Sabbath has been essentially the most major and cherished associations of Jewish lifestyles on the grounds that overdue antiquity. Over a interval of a number of centuries, the classical Kabbalists built a wealthy physique of formality and fantasy that articulated a clean imaginative and prescient of the Sabbath. the paranormal knowing of the Sabbath was once assimilated through nearly each Jewish group. This quantity is a translation and significant remark to Sod ha-Shabbat, a treatise at the mystical Sabbath via the influential Spanish-Turkish Kabbalist, R. Meir ibn Gabbai. this crucial textual content, the main systematic remedy of the Sabbath in classical Kabbalah, has been inaccessible to the English reader beforehand.

By David Limbaugh

ISBN-10: 1621574504

ISBN-13: 9781621574507

A brand new York instances Bestseller!

In the 2014 manhattan occasions bestseller Jesus on Trial, David Limbaugh made a case for the Gospels as not easy facts of the lifestyles of God, drawing on his personal religious trip from skeptic to believer. Now, within the Emmaus Code, Limbaugh unlocks the mysteries of the previous testomony and divulges tricks of Jesus Christ's arrival via all thirty-nine outdated testomony books.

The key to the secrets and techniques of the previous testomony, Limbaugh argues, is the an important New testomony come across among the risen Jesus and tourists at the highway to Emmaus. With that key, and with Limbaugh as a deft consultant, readers of The Emmaus Code will come to a startling new figuring out of the outdated testomony as a transparent and strong heralding of Jesus Christ's arrival. Limbaugh takes readers on a revealing trip from Genesis via Malachi, demonstrating constant message classes via each of the previous Testament's thirty-nine books: the facility, ask yourself, and eternal love of Jesus Christ.

By Judah Goldin

ISBN-10: 0300046979

ISBN-13: 9780300046977

By Michael Fishbane

ISBN-10: 0198267339

ISBN-13: 9780198267331

This can be a entire learn of delusion within the Hebrew Bible and fantasy and mythmaking in classical rabbinic literature (Midrash and Talmud) and within the classical paintings of medieval Jewish mysticism (the publication of Zohar). Michael Fishbane presents an in depth examine of the texts and theologies concerned and the imperative position of exegesis within the improvement and transformation of the topic. Taken up are problems with fable and monotheism, fantasy and culture, and delusion and language. The presence and energy of delusion in successive cultural stages is handled, emphasizing definite paradigmatic acts of God and lines of the divine personality.

Review:
In sum, this quantity offers shut and cautious examinations of a wealthy number of texts, considerate summaries of what could be concludedwith regard to every kind of literature, leading edge appendices, and a few special indexes. the writer combines a large wisdom of spiritual phenomenology, the speculation of fable, and the classical and Christian traditions with a really expert, masterly, and certain knowing of biblical, rabbinic, and kabbalistic texts and traditions. He provides the reader with an unlimited quantity of textual content to soak up and an in depth variety of interpretations and conclusions on which to mirror. Stefan C Reif, The magazine of Theological reports Fishbane is a type of students most sensible certified to take on an issue that covers approximately thousand years of religous and literary historical past and he doesn't the following shirk any elements of the indomitable problem that this kind of activity represents...a paintings of sound and sturdy scholarship. Its interpretations and conclusions will lengthy stay the topic of a lot discussion...truly extraordinary and tremendously vital piece of analysis. Stfan C Reif, The magazine of Theological reports a accomplished study...a paintings of significant value for biblical and jewish stories. Peter Hayman, The Expository instances