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Jacob Unexpected Patriarch
ISBN: HB: 9780300144260, Yale University Press, November 2012
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm
A powerful hero of the Bible, Jacob is also one of its most complex figures. Bible stories recounting his life often expose his deception, lies, and greed, then puzzlingly attempt to justify them. In this book an eminent biblical scholar looks at Jac...
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£18,99
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In God's Shadow A Political Theorist Reads the Hebrew Bible
ISBN: HB: 9780300180442, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this eagerly awaited book, political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings after decades of thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible. Attentive to nuance while engagingly straightforward, Walzer examines the laws, the histories, the...
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£23,00
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Judaism A Way of Being
ISBN: PB: 9780300168150, Yale University Press, April 2011
248 pp., 20.6x14 cm, 4 colour illus.
Written for observant and non-observant Jews and anyone interested in religion, this remarkable book by the distinguished scholar David Gelernter seeks to answer the deceptively simple question: What is Judaism really about? Gelernter views Judaism a...
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£14,99
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Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 A Survey
ISBN: HB: 9780300126266, Yale University Press, April 2011
512 pp., 23.6x16 cm
This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. The first to focus attention on a specific centre of Kabbalah, Moshe Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic th...
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£60,00
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Solomon The Lure of Wisdom
ISBN: HB: 9780300137187, Yale University Press, April 2011
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Tradition has it that King Solomon knew everything there was to know – the mysteries of nature, of love, of God himself – but what do we know of him? Esteemed biblical scholar Steven Weitzman reintroduces readers to Solomon's story and its surprising...
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£19,99
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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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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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