Category: Judaism

By Peter Ochs

ISBN-10: 079144533X

ISBN-13: 9780791445334

In Reviewing the Covenant, six Jewish philosophers--and one Christian colleague--respond to the paintings of the popular Jewish theologian Eugene B. Borowitz, one of many major figures within the stream of "postmodern" Jewish philosophy and theology. The identify remembers Borowitz's previous booklet, Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew, during which he lent this move a theological time table, and the essays during this ebook reply to Borowitz's name: to revitalize modern Judaism via renewing the covenant that binds glossy Jews to re-live and re-interpret the traditions of Judaism's previous.

Together with the introductory and responsive essays via Peter Ochs and Borowitz himself, the essays supply a group of discussion, an try and reason-out how Jewish religion is feasible after the Holocaust and the way cause itself is feasible after the flaws of the good "-isms" of the fashionable global. This discussion is carried out below the banner of "postmodern Judaism," a frightening time period that via the tip of the e-book gets an incredibly direct that means, specifically, the of disillusionment and loss out of which Jews can and needs to discover a 3rd method out of the trendy deadlock among conceited rationalism and conceited faith. Representing a massive highbrow reaction to the best theologian of liberal Judaism, the publication offers an important indication of destiny instructions in Jewish non secular proposal.

By Jordan D. Rosenblum

ISBN-10: 0521195985

ISBN-13: 9780521195980

Nutrition usually defines societies or even civilizations. via specific commensality regulations, teams shape certain identities: people with whom ''we'' consume (''Us'') and people with whom ''we'' can't consume (''Them''). This id is enacted day-by-day, turning the organic have to devour right into a culturally major job. during this booklet, Jordan D. Rosenblum explores how nutrients laws and practices helped to build the id of early rabbinic Judaism. Bringing jointly the scholarship of rabbinics with that of foodstuff reports, this quantity first examines the historic truth of foodstuff creation and intake in Roman-era Palestine. It then explores how early rabbinic foodstuff laws created a unique Jewish, male, and rabbinic id. Rosenblum's paintings demonstrates how rabbinic meals practices built an suitable for eating id.

By Gary A. Anderson

ISBN-10: 0300149891

ISBN-13: 9780300149890

What is sin? Is it easily wrongdoing? Why do its results linger over the years? during this delicate, creative, and unique paintings, Gary Anderson indicates how altering conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay on the very center of the biblical culture. Spanning approximately thousand years, the booklet brilliantly demonstrates how sin, as soon as conceived of as a actual burden, turns into, over the years, eclipsed via financial metaphors. remodeled from a weight that a person carried, sin turns into a debt that has to be repaid that allows you to be redeemed in God's eyes.

Anderson exhibits how this historical Jewish revolution in inspiration formed the best way the Christian church understood the loss of life and resurrection of Jesus and finally resulted in the improvement of varied penitential disciplines, deeds of charity, or even papal indulgences. In so doing it unearths how those altering notions of sin supplied a spur for the Protestant Reformation.

Broad in scope whereas nonetheless exceedingly aware of element, this bold and profound e-book unveils the most seismic shifts that happened in spiritual trust and perform, deepening our knowing of 1 of the main basic facets of human event.

By Peter J. Tomson, Shmuel Safrai, Zeev Safrai, Joshua Schwartz

ISBN-10: 902324222X

ISBN-13: 9789023242222

This long-awaited better half quantity to The Literature of the Sages, First half (Fortress Press, 1987) brings to of entirety part II of the well known Compendia sequence, released cooperatively with Van Gorcum of Amsterdam.

The Literature of the Sages, moment half, explores the literary production of millions of old Jewish lecturers, the usually- nameless Sages of overdue antiquity and the center a while. Essays via leading students supply a cautious and succinct research of the content material and personality of assorted files, their textual and literary kinds, with specific cognizance to the continuing discovery and e-book of latest textual material.

Incorporating groundbreaking advancements in study, those essays supply a finished presentation released right here for the 1st time. This quantity will turn out a huge reference paintings for all scholars of historic Judaism, the origins of Jewish culture, and the Jewish history of Christianity.

By Professor James A Diamond, Philip S Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies Aaron W Hughes

ISBN-10: 9004233504

ISBN-13: 9789004233508

ISBN-10: 9004234063

ISBN-13: 9789004234062

The time period "medieval" plays very much extra highbrow paintings in smooth Jewish concept than just appearing as a referent to a specific old period. throughout the 19th century, frequently for Jews who have been more and more alienated from their very own culture, the "medieval" functioned essentially as a bearer of id in a swiftly altering and secular international. every one bankruptcy in Encountering the Medieval in sleek Jewish Thought addresses a unique go back to the medieval, starting from the Enlightenment to the modern interval, that clothed itself within the language of renewal and of retrieval. the quantity engages the complete complexity and variety of that means the time period "medieval" includes for contemporary Jewish inspiration.

By Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Marie Luise Knott, David Heredia, Olivier Mannoni, Françoise Mancip-Renaudie

ISBN-10: 2021095010

ISBN-13: 9782021095012

Liés d’amitié dès le milieu des années trente, mais fondamentalement opposés par leurs idées, Hannah Arendt et Gershom Scholem ne cessèrent, plus de vingt ans durant, d’échanger des lettres chargées de ardour entre manhattan et Jérusalem. Entre eux, Walter Benjamin, le très cher ami commun dont los angeles mort en 1940 hante cette correspondance de bout en bout.Celle-ci témoigne d’abord des débats qui enflammèrent les intellectuels juifs (et pas seulement eux) après le génocide : les Juifs doivent-ils former un État certain fondé sur l. a. judéité ? doivent-ils au contraire s’assimiler dans les will pay où ils résident ? Scholem soutient l. a. première choice, Arendt l. a. seconde.C’est ainsi qu’entre 1939 et 1963, le cabbaliste et l. a. philosophe confrontent leurs reviews sur los angeles judéité, le sionisme, l’actualité politique, leurs écrits respectifs, mais aussi le destin des Juifs, tandis qu’après los angeles guerre ils s’engagent l’un et l’autre dans le sauvetage des bibliothèques et des data pillées par les nazis. Jusqu’à quel aspect le deuil des morts et le wrestle pour l. a. survie du judaïsme fondait-il leurs family members ?Ce débat passionné s’achèvera sur une rupture, Scholem ayant les mots les plus durs pour los angeles façon dont son amie avait rendu compte en 1963, dans los angeles presse américaine, du procès Eichmann. Était-elle devenue à ses yeux une « mauvaise juive » ?Plutôt se taire que se déchirer.

By Immanuel Etkes, Jeffrey M. Green

ISBN-10: 1611686776

ISBN-13: 9781611686777

ISBN-10: 1611686792

ISBN-13: 9781611686791

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745–1812), in imperial Russia, used to be the founder and primary rebbe of Chabad, a department of Hasidic Judaism that thrives to the current day. The Chabad-Lubavitch stream he based within the zone referred to now as Belarus performed, and keeps to play, a massive half within the modernization procedures and postwar revitalization of Orthodox Jewry. Drawing on ancient resource fabrics that come with Shneur Zalman’s personal works and correspondence, in addition to records bearing on his imprisonment and interrogation through the Russian professionals, Etkes specializes in Zalman’s functionality as a Hasidic chief, his specified own characteristics and achievements, and the function he performed within the clash among Hasidim and its competitors. additionally, Etkes attracts a vibrant photograph of the whole iteration that got here below Rabbi Shneur Zalman’s effect. This entire biography will entice students and scholars of the heritage of Hasidism, East ecu Jewry, and Jewish spirituality

By Naomi Pasachoff, Robert J. Littman

ISBN-10: 1568211791

ISBN-13: 9781568211794

How does this Jewish historical past e-book range from all others? rather than burdening the reader with never-ending information about each point of Jewish background, Pasachoff and Littman supply crucial info, simply digested through readers of every age, that chronicles merely the most important occasions and other people of the earlier. The historical past of the Jews covers a interval of over 3,500 years, with an overpowering variety of nations and lands. it's a microcosm of the heritage of the realm. for this reason, even a one-volume paintings may be tough to learn from disguise to hide to realize the sweep of Jewish heritage. This booklet speaks to the reader who's attracted to person issues or classes and needs a quick-reference consultant to the folks and locations that really formed Jewish heritage. whilst, if learn from starting to finish, those 'nutshells' will offer a chronological heritage of the Jews.

By Jacob Neusner

ISBN-10: 0521341469

ISBN-13: 9780521341462

Whereas Jews in old Israel had a lot in universal, in reality there existed no such factor as an orthodox Judaism. varied Judaisms, each one with its personal lifestyle, global view, and definition of the social entity (or Israel) to whom it spoke, flourished. seeing that there has been no unmarried Judaism, there has been no unmarried Messiah-idea or Messianic doctrine. numerous readings of the Messiah subject reached definition within the quite a few unrelated non secular structures or Judaisms produced by way of these Jews--hence "Judaisms" and "their Messiahs." during this publication, unusual experts in overdue antiquity Judaisms, together with Christian students, absorb the differing position and position of the Messiah-idea. facing the best-documented Judaic systems--the Essene group at Qumran, Christian Judaisms represented via Matthew and Mark, the nascent rabbinic Judaism portrayed within the Mishnah, the Judaic method implicit within the writings of Philo--each writer works out how a given method treats the Messiah subject matter.

By Patrick Grant (auth.)

ISBN-10: 1349171514

ISBN-13: 9781349171514

ISBN-10: 1349171530

ISBN-13: 9781349171538