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Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah
ISBN: HB: 9780226282077, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm
Bringing to light a hidden chapter in the history of modern Judaism, "Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah" explores the shamanic dimensions of Jewish mysticism. Jonathan Garb integrates methods and models from the social sciences, comparative religion...
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£47,00
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Untold Tales of the Hasidim Crisis and Discontent in the History of Hasidism
ISBN: PB: 9781611681949, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2011
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This fascinating volume reveals some of the dark, dramatic episodes concealed in the folds of the hasidic cloak – shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism. Using tools of detection, Assaf extracts historical truth from a varie...
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£32,00
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Choice Converts to Judaism Share Their Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781589662094, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "The Choice", Arnine Cumsky Weiss and Carol Weiss Rubel present the stories of forty-five converts to Judaism. These reflective narratives demonstrate that no two converts' experiences are alike, yet most share some common characteristics: a spiri...
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£19,00
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Sacred Attunement A Jewish Theology
ISBN: PB: 9780226251721, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
256 pp., 21.5x13 cm
Contemporary theology, and Jewish theology in particular, Michael Fishbane asserts, now lies fallow, beset by strong critiques from within and without. For Jewish reality, a coherent and wide-ranging response in thoroughly modern terms is needed".Sac...
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£22,50
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Radical Judaism Rethinking God and Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780300152326, Yale University Press, March 2010
224 pp., 21x14 cm
How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish scholar Arthur Green argues that a neomystical perspective can...
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£24,00
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Chosen Will Become Herds Studies in Twentieth-century Kabbalah
ISBN: PB: 9780300123944, Yale University Press, August 2009
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The popularity of Kabbalah, a Jewish mystical movement at least 900 years old, has grown astonishingly within the context of the vast and ever-expanding social movement commonly referred to as the New Age. This book is the first to provide a broad ov...
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£42,00
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Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague
ISBN: PB: 9780300143201, Yale University Press, August 2008
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This collection of interrelated stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909. So widely popular and influential was Yudl Rosenberg's book, it is no exaggeration to...
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£19,00
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Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780300140149, Yale University Press, December 2007
752 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This is a commentary on the history of rabbinical teachings in the Christian era – on the Mishnah, the Tosefta, the Talmuds, and more.
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£34,00
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Eternally Eve Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9781584655732, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2007
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The biblical accounts of Eve's life are central to Western culture, occupying a privileged place in our literature and art, culture, and society. For both Judaism and Christianity, these stories involving Eve have for centuries been entangled with th...
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£24,00
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Ancient Synagogue The First Thousand Years
ISBN: PB: 9780300106282, Yale University Press, October 2005
816 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
In his comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period through Late Antiquity, Lee Levine traces the origins and development of this dynamic and revolutionary institution. This revised paperback edition reflects the latest informat...
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£55,00
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