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Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
ISBN: HB: 9780300182682, Yale University Press, March 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The first comprehensive study of friendship in the Hebrew Bible Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, possibly beca...
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£40,00
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House of the Mother The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry
ISBN: HB: 9780300197945, Yale University Press, January 2017
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father's household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Cha...
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£70,00
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Yearnings of the Soul Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah
ISBN: HB: 9780226295800, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Yearnings of the Soul", Jonathan Garb uncovers a crucial thread in the story of modern Kabbalah and modern mysticism more generally: psychology. Returning psychology to its roots as an attempt to understand the soul, he traces the manifold intera...
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£36,00
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Brandeis Modern Hebrew
ISBN: PB: 9781611689181, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2015
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Written by the core faculty of the Hebrew Program at Brandeis University, Brandeis Modern Hebrew is an accessible introduction to the Hebrew language for American undergraduates and high school students. Its functional and contextual elements are des...
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£68,00
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Kabbalah A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences
ISBN: HB: 9780300152364, Yale University Press, August 2015
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.
In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new pe...
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£43,00
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Joshua 1-12 A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300149753, Yale University Press, July 2015
600 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 black&white maps
An acknowledged expert on the Hebrew Bible, Thomas Dozeman offers a fresh translation of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the book of Joshua and explores the nature, function, and causes of the religious violence depicted therein. By blending the distin...
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£55,00
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Poetry of Kabbalah Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780300205695, ISBN: HB: 9780300169164, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm
This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry from the world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential concealed" in the Kabbalistic tradition,...
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£14,99
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£20,00
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Genius Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism
ISBN: PB: 9780300205923, ISBN: HB: 9780300179309, Yale University Press, June 2014
352 pp., 21x14 cm
Elijah ben Solomon, the "Genius of Vilna", was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. In this book Eliyahu Stern offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah's life and influence. While the experie...
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£25,00
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£35,00
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Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities
ISBN: PB: 9780226143187, ISBN: HB: 9780226471075, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm
In "Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam", Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined – and continues to define today – the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner l...
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£30,00
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£43,50
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Jewish Ceremony for Newborn Girls The Torah's Covenant Affirmed
ISBN: PB: 9781611684179, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This engaging book offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, philosophy, and social trends that underpin modern welcoming ceremonies for newborn girls in the Jewish community. Sharon R. Siegel traces the arc of these ceremonies from their em...
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£24,00
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