Category: Judaism

By Edward K. Kaplan

ISBN-10: 0791428672

ISBN-13: 9780791428672

A approach for studying Heschel's significant works, in addition to a brand new path to realizing spiritual writing normally: a lucid research of contemporary non secular and moral notion utilizing literary criticism.

"A incredible, and while, relocating, and deeply own interpretation of the works of 1 of the best non secular thinkers of this century. by means of skillfully interpreting Heschel's rhetoric and mastery of language--his 'poetics of faith'--Edward Kaplan acts as a advisor to Heschel's writings for the expert in addition to the final reader, for Jew in addition to non-Jew. Holiness in phrases enables us to determine that what Heschel wrote of scripture applies to his personal works: '...the phrases turned a dwell twine charged along with his spirit.'" -- Eva Fleischner, Professor Emerita, Montclair country University

"Once again--and in a brand new way--the theological and ethical nuances of Heschel's religious ardour may be heard. Kaplan has set our ear to sounds long-forgotten or by no means recognized. His paintings isn't any deposit of educational travail, yet exemplifies scholarship as provider within the maximum sense.

"A life of listening has long past into the making of this booklet. Over decades, Edward Kaplan has contributed cautious and perceptive reviews on Heschel's poetic rhetoric, on his realizing of prophecy and prophetic recognition, and at the ethical lifestyles and its dating to mysticism and transcendence. they're now positioned to the provider of a full-scale exposition of Heschel's idea and non secular orientation." -- From the Foreword by means of Michael Fishbane

Holiness in phrases: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Poetics of Piety is either an advent to examining Heschel's works in English, and an in-depth research of ways his literary kind can remodel the awareness of readers. Heschel's existence and works reply to the modern main issue in faith, formulating positions on religion and melancholy, racism and social justice, the Holocaust, interreligious discussion, and the provision of God's presence. We learn Heschel's idea and use of literary language, his "poetics of piety," for you to elucidate his narrative technique to educate God-centered (or prophetic) thinking.

The ebook strains the foremost topics of his "depth theology," awe and radical amazement, the which means of image, ritual, prayer, and mystical perception. old and biographical details clarifies Heschel's implicit polemic with Martin Buber and a supplemental learn advisor offers resources for every bankruptcy and recommendations for additional proposal and discussion.

"This paintings is an strangely poignant and precise examine of knowing glossy non secular suggestion utilizing literary feedback. Unrelated to this commentary, yet of equivalent importance, is the author's vital presentation of Heschel's reaction to the Holocaust. additionally very important is his linkage among Heschel's theology--particularly his perspectives of prophecy, and his biography--especially his involvement in social motion. whereas different writers on Heschel have touched on those concerns, no different writer has performed it with such intensity or with such readability. the point of interest upon the cultured positive factors of Heschel's paintings makes this paintings specific and critical. The delineation of Heschel's 'sacred humanism' is particularly good performed and will function a version for facing comparable thinkers, e.g., Thomas Merton." -- Byron L. Sherwin, Spertus Institute of Jewish stories

By Daniel Boyarin

ISBN-10: 0812219864

ISBN-13: 9780812219869

The ancient separation among Judaism and Christianity is frequently figured as a in actual fact outlined holiday of a unmarried entity into separate religions. Following this version, there might were one faith often called Judaism earlier than the delivery of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identification. Even ahead of its next department, yes ideals and practices of this composite may were identifiable as Christian or Jewish.In Border traces, even if, Daniel Boyarin makes a outstanding case for a really varied state of mind in regards to the historic improvement that's the partition of Judaeo-Christianity.There have been no features or positive aspects that may be defined as uniquely Jewish or Christian in overdue antiquity, Boyarin argues. relatively, Jesus-following Jews and Jews who didn't keep on with Jesus lived on a cultural map during which ideals, akin to that during a moment divine being, and practices, akin to maintaining kosher or conserving the Sabbath, have been greatly and variably allotted. the last word differences among Judaism and Christianity have been imposed from above by means of "border-makers," heresiologists worried to build a discrete id for Christianity. through defining a few ideals and practices as Christian and others as Jewish or heretical, they moved rules, behaviors, and other people to 1 aspect or one other of a synthetic border—and, Boyarin considerably contends, invented the very suggestion of faith.

By Alan Brill

ISBN-10: 0230622267

ISBN-13: 9780230622265

With perception and scholarship, Alan Brill crisply outlines the conventional Jewish methods to different religions for an age of globalization. He presents a clean point of view on Biblical and Rabbinic texts, supplying new methods of wondering different faiths. within the majority of quantity, he develops the kinds of theology of religions for Jewish texts. He arranges the texts in accordance category generic in interfaith paintings: inclusivist, exclusivist, universalist, and pluralist. Judaism and different Religions is key for a Jewish theological figuring out of many of the concerns in encounters with different religions. With ardour and readability, Brill argues that during today’s global of robust non secular passions and intolerance, it is crucial to head past secular tolerance towards average and mediating non secular positions.

By Alan L. Mittleman, Andy Paris

ISBN-10: 140518941X

ISBN-13: 9781405189415

A quick heritage of Jewish Ethics lines the improvement of Jewish ethical recommendations and moral mirrored image from its Biblical roots to the current day. Offers an enticing and considerate account of Jewish ethics Brings jointly and discusses a huge diversity of historic assets protecting millennia of writings and conversationsCombines present scholarship with unique insightsWritten by way of a tremendous the world over famous student of Jewish philosophy and ethics

By Joseph Dan

ISBN-10: 1461629187

ISBN-13: 9781461629184

Curiosity in Jewish mysticism is, in our iteration, common and growing to be. From Hebrew faculties to Hollywood, humans of all backgrounds and degrees of information are pursuing the topic. Books, magazines, journals, and sessions are speedily transforming into in number.

One results of this burst of curiosity and popularization of Jewish mysticism is the matter of incorrect information. the necessity for trustworthy resource fabric has turn into crucial.

This four-volume paintings through Professor Joseph Dan is a enormous occasion within the publishing background of English-language reference books just about Jewish mystical concept and perform. Professor Dan's credentials are of the top order. The recipient of the Israel Prize (considered to be Israel's optimum honor), Joseph Dan is the Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah on the Hebrew college of Jerusalem, and is still a traveling professor at one of the most prestigious associations of upper studying on this planet.

By Jacob Neusner

ISBN-10: 0521354714

ISBN-13: 9780521354714

The present problem in Palestine is just the latest manifestation of Israel's historic value to the Jewish humans. Jacob Neusner examines the the most important position of the definition of Israel within the historical past of Judaic idea. He argues that Judaic sages have built a number of metaphoric pictures of Israel--as kinfolk, as selected humans, as a nation--in order to specific altering theological issues because the faith developed. The background of the definition of Israel is published because the mirrored image of the heritage of Judaism itself. this can be a daring and unique interpretation of ways within which Jews, in addition to different peoples, outline themselves.

By David R. Slavitt

ISBN-10: 0801866170

ISBN-13: 9780801866173

ISBN-10: 0801876907

ISBN-13: 9780801876905

Distinguished poet and translator David R. Slavitt right here presents a translation of and meditation upon the publication of Lamentations, the biblical account of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 587 B.C.,on the 9th day of the Jewish month of Av―Tish'a b'Av. (Six centuries later the Romans destroyed the second one Temple at the similar day.) lots of the Jewish inhabitants used to be deported to Babylon, and the consequent interval got here to be often called the Babylonian Captivity. in line with culture, the e-book of Lamentations used to be written in accordance with this political, social, and spiritual situation. The 5 poems composing the publication exhibit Israel's sorrow, brokenness, and bewilderment sooner than God.

Tish'a b'Av is the day on which observant Jews quickly and pray. And mourn. As Slavitt observes in his meditation:" it truly is forbidden on Tish'a b'Av even to review the Torah, with the exception of the e-book of activity and the publication of Lamentations. this is often the day on which we grieve for each poor factor that occurs during this international. it's the worst day of the year."Slavitt's meditation offers a context for analyzing the scriptural textual content. solid within the similar sort because the Hebrew poetry, his meditation recounts how sorrow and disaster have characterised rather a lot of the heritage of the Jewish humans, from their enslavement in Egypt to the Holocaust of Nazi Germany.

Few translations of this outstanding ebook of the Bible try and reproduce in English, as Slavitt does right here, the Hebrew acrostics. within the unique, each one verse starts with a special letter of the Hebrew alphabet in sequential order; Slavitt elegantly reproduces this impact utilizing the 1st 22 letters of the English alphabet. greater than a structural or mnemonic machine, Slavitt argues, the acrostics are "a severe statement that the language itself is conversing, that the speech is electrified, and that there's, past all of the catastrophe and ache the e-book recounts, an intricacy and an orderly coherence."

By Minna Rozen

ISBN-10: 1441615970

ISBN-13: 9781441615978

ISBN-10: 1845116429

ISBN-13: 9781845116422

The Greek and Jewish diasporas are the main major of Western civilization. Homelands and Diasporas is the 1st booklet to discover the similarities and changes among those experiences. In the method it sheds attention-grabbing mild on their basic value for either Greek and Jewish societies. The authors research Greek and Jewish diasporas all through historical past, from classical and Biblical occasions to the current, and everywhere in the world--in Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, Russia, the close to and heart East, Spain and the US. They learn the very nature of diaspora, reading either the Greek suggestion of noble enlargement and the Jewish concept of enforced exile, and examine neighborhood buildings in addition to social and spiritual networks, combining scriptural research with cultural and political historical past. Diaspora is a tricky and emotive inspiration yet Homelands and Diasporas bargains a balanced and perceptive advisor to the hooked up histories of those peoples clear of their homelands.

By Margaret Barker

ISBN-10: 0281064830

ISBN-13: 9780281064830

In line with Margaret Barker, temple mysticism underpins a lot of the Bible. Rooted within the cult of the 1st temple in historic Judaism, it is helping us to appreciate the origins of Christianity. Barker first examines biblical texts: Isaiah, the prophet whom Jesus quoted greater than the other in Scripture, and John, after which non-biblical texts.

By M. Avrum Ehrlich

ISBN-10: 0415457165

ISBN-13: 9780415457163

Jews and Judaism in smooth China explores and compares the dynamics at paintings in of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations in the world; Jewish and chinese language. The ebook reports how they have interaction in modernity and the way every one civilization perspectives the opposite, and analyses components of cooperation among students, activists and politicians. via review of the respective abilities, traits and social resources which are fused and borrowed within the civilizational alternate, we achieve an perception into the social tactics underpinning contrasting and lengthy surviving civilizations.

Identifying and analysing a few of the rising present matters, this booklet indicates Jewish-Chinese family may well turn into a starting to be self-discipline of import to the research of faith and comparative identification, and appears at how the numerous contrasts in Jewish and chinese language nationwide constructs could serve them good within the quest for a significant discourse. Chapters discover id, integrity of the family; minority prestige; non secular freedom; ethics and morality; culture as opposed to modernity; the surroundings, and different components that are present process profound transformation.

Identifying the highbrow and useful nexus and bifurcation among the 2 cultures, worldviews and identities, this paintings is vital for college kids of chinese language reports, sociology, faith and the Jewish diaspora, and gives valuable interpreting for Western travelers to China.