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Author : Judah ben Elijah Hadassi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Eshkol ha-kofer (Cluster of henna blossoms) written by Judah ben Elijah Hadassi and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Lasker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004380310
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Theological Encounters at a Crossroads written by Daniel Lasker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theological Encounters at a Crossroads presents a scientific edition of the first quarter of Judah Hadassi’s Eshkol ha-kofer, an annotated English translation, studies of his Karaite theology, and an analysis and transcription of Greek words which appear in Hebrew script.
Author : Hartley Lachter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813568765
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Kabbalistic Revolution written by Hartley Lachter and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The set of Jewish mystical teachings known as Kabbalah are often imagined as timeless texts, teachings that have been passed down through the millennia. Yet, as this groundbreaking new study shows, Kabbalah flourished in a specific time and place, emerging in response to the social prejudices that Jews faced. Hartley Lachter, a scholar of religion studies, transports us to medieval Spain, a place where anti-Semitic propaganda was on the rise and Jewish political power was on the wane. Kabbalistic Revolution proposes that, given this context, Kabbalah must be understood as a radically empowering political discourse. While the era’s Christian preachers claimed that Jews were blind to the true meaning of scripture and had been abandoned by God, the Kabbalists countered with a doctrine that granted Jews a uniquely privileged relationship with God. Lachter demonstrates how Kabbalah envisioned this increasingly marginalized group at the center of the universe, their mystical practices serving to maintain the harmony of the divine world. For students of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalistic Revolution provides a new approach to the development of medieval Kabbalah. Yet the book’s central questions should appeal to anyone with an interest in the relationships between religious discourses, political struggles, and ethnic pride.
Author : Dean Phillip Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429859171
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography written by Dean Phillip Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography provides an overview of Jewish history from the biblical to the contemporary period, while simultaneously placing Jewish history into conversation with the most central historiographical methods and issues and some of the core source materials used by scholars within the field. The field of Jewish history is profitably interdisciplinary. Drawing from the historical methods and themes employed in the study of various periods and geographical regions as well as from academic fields outside of history, it utilizes a broad range of source materials produced by Jews and non-Jews. It grapples with many issues that were core to Jewish life, culture, community, and identity in the past, while reflecting and addressing contemporary concerns and perspectives. Divided into four parts, this volume examines how Jewish history has engaged with and developed more general historiographical methods and considerations. Part I provides a general overview of Jewish history, while Parts II and III respectively address the rich sources and methodologies used to study Jewish history. Concluding in Part IV with a timeline, glossary, and index to help frame and connect the history, sources, and methodologies presented throughout, The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography is the perfect volume for anyone interested in Jewish history.
Author : Michael Tilly
Publisher : Kohlhammer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 317032585X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Judaism II written by Michael Tilly and published by Kohlhammer Verlag. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judaism, the oldest of the Abrahamic religions, is one of the pillars of modern civilization. A collective of internationally renowned experts cooperated in a singular academic enterprise to portray Judaism from its transformation as a Temple cult to its broad contemporary varieties. In three volumes the long-running book series "Die Religionen der Menschheit" (Religions of Humanity) presents for the first time a complete and compelling view on Jewish life now and then - a fascinating portrait of the Jewish people with its ability to adapt itself to most different cultural settings, always maintaining its strong and unique identity. Volume II presents Jewish literature and thinking: the Jewish Bible; Hellenistic, Tannaitic, Amoraic and Gaonic literature to medieval and modern genres. Chapters on mysticism, Piyyut, Liturgy and Prayer complete the volume.
Author : Mayn Katz
Publisher : Variocity
ISBN 13 : 1933037741
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Song of Spies written by Mayn Katz and published by Variocity. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Song of Spies is a documentary novel. Using main characters based on real people, it is on one level a fascinating story of Israel's foreign intelligence service, the Mossad. The story tracks the breakdown of the Oslo peace process, the rise of the Al Aqsa intifada, and the fight against Islamist terror. On a deeper level, it is also a story of the pivotal events that have shaped Israel's leaders for the 21st century. The story has two protagonists. One is the man called out of semi-retirement to become the Mossad's director. He is also the nephew of one of the last century's most famous philosophers and intellectuals. He is the Shamash. Avi is a former elite commando, now married with a young child. He becomes the Shamash's protege. As the peace process collapses and the new intifada erupts, the Shamash gives Avi a vital new assignment. Ultimately, the assignment and events force Avi to come to terms with his past and recognize what may be his destiny. In the tradition of classic spy novelists, Katz has created a story that takes the reader beyond the headlines, to reveal the soul of an intelligence agency and the people that serve it.
Author : Joachim Yeshaya
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004334785
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Exegesis and Poetry in Medieval Karaite and Rabbanite Texts written by Joachim Yeshaya and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers an inquiry into the complex interaction between exegesis and poetry that characterized medieval and early modern Karaite and Rabbanite treatment of the Bible in the Islamic world, the Byzantine Empire, and Christian Europe. Discussing a variety of topics that are usually associated with either exegesis or poetry in conjunction with the two fields, the authors analyze a wide array of interactions between biblical sources and their interpretive layers, whether in prose exegesis or in multiple forms of poetry and rhymed prose. Of particular relevance are mechanisms for the production and transmission of exegetical traditions, including the participation of Jewish poets in these processes, an issue that serves as a leitmotif throughout this collection.
Author : Fred Astren
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035180
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding written by Fred Astren and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notions of history and the past contained in literature of the Karaite Jewish sect offer insight into the relationship of Karaism to mainstream rabbinic Judaism and to Islam and Christianity. Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding describes how a minority sectarian religious community constructs and uses historical ideology. It investigates the proportioning of historical ideology to law and doctrine and the influence of historical setting on religious writings about the past. Fred Astren discusses modes of representing the past, especially in Jewish culture, and then poses questions about the past in sectarian--particularly Judaic sectarian--contexts. He contrasts early Karaite scripturalism with the literature of rabbinic Judaism, which, embodying historical views that carry a moralistic burden, draws upon the chain of tradition to suppose a generation-to-generation transmission of divine knowledge and authority. The center of Karaism shifted to the Byzantine-Turkish world during the twelfth through sixteenth centuries, when a new historical outlook unoblivious of the past accommodated legal developments influenced by rabbinic thought. Reconstructing Karaite historical expression from both published works and previously unexamined manuscripts, Astren shows that Karaites relied on rabbinic literature to extract and compile historical data for their own readings of Jewish history. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Karaite scholars in Poland and Lithuania collated and harmonized historical materials inherited from their Middle Eastern predecessors. Astren portrays the way that Karaites, with some influence from Jewish Renaissance historiography and impelled by features of Protestant-Catholic discourse, prepared complete literary historical works that maintained their Jewishness while offering a Karaite reading of Jewish history.
Author : Katja Vehlow
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004248153
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Abraham Ibn Daud's Dorot 'Olam (Generations of the Ages) written by Katja Vehlow and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Abraham ibn Daud of Toledo (c. 1110-1180), Dorot ‘Olam (Generations of the Ages) is one of the most influential and innovative historical works of medieval Hebrew literature. In four sections, three of which are edited and translated in this volume for the first time, Dorot ‘Olam asserts the superiority of rabbinic Judaism and stresses the central role of Iberia for the Jewish past, present, and future. Combining Jewish and Christian sources in new ways, Ibn Daud presents a compelling vision of the past and formulates political ideas that stress the importance of consensus-driven leadership under rabbinic guidance. This edition demonstrates how Dorot ‘Olam was received by Jewish and Christian readers who embraced the book in Hebrew, Latin, and two English and German translations.
Author : Marina Rustow
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455308
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Heresy and the Politics of Community written by Marina Rustow and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraites, the two major Jewish groups under Islamic rule, split decisively in the tenth century and from that time forward the minority Qaraites were deemed a heretical sect. Qaraites affirmed a right to decide matters of Jewish law free from centuries of rabbinic interpretation; the Rabbanites, in turn, claimed an unbroken chain of scholarly tradition. Rustow draws heavily on the Cairo Geniza, a repository of papers found in a Rabbanite synagogue, to show that despite the often fierce arguments between the groups, they depended on each other for political and financial support and cooperated in both public and private life. This evidence of remarkable interchange leads Rustow to the conclusion that the accusation of heresy appeared sporadically, in specific contexts, and that the history of permanent schism was the invention of polemicists on both sides. Power shifted back and forth fluidly across what later commentators, particularly those invested in the rabbinic claim to exclusive authority, deemed to have been sharply drawn boundaries. Heresy and the Politics of Community paints a portrait of a more flexible medieval Eastern Mediterranean world than has previously been imagined and demonstrates a new understanding of the historical meanings of charges of heresy against communities of faith. Historians of premodern societies will find that, in her fresh approach to medieval Jewish and Islamic culture, Rustow illuminates a major issue in the history of religions.
Author : Leonard J. Greenspoon
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612496040
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Next Year in Jerusalem written by Leonard J. Greenspoon and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Next Year in Jerusalem recognizes that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition. The fourteen papers in this collection examine this phenomenon from different approaches, genres, and media. They cover the period from biblical times through today. Among the exiles highlighted are the Babylonian Exile (sixth century BCE), the exile after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple (70 CE), and the years after the Crusaders (tenth century CE). Events of return include the aftermath of the Babylonian Exile (fifth century BCE), the centuries after the Temple’s destruction (first and second CE), and the years of the establishment of the modern State of Israel (1948 CE). In each instance authors pay close attention to the historical settings, the literature created by Jews and others, and the theological explanations offered (typically, this was seen as divine punishment or reward for Israel’s behavior). The entire volume is written authoritatively and accessibly.
Author : Posen Library of Jewish culture and civilization (Lucerne, Switzerland)
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300135513
Total Pages : 1392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5 written by Posen Library of Jewish culture and civilization (Lucerne, Switzerland) and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume of the Posen Library demonstrates through a rich array of texts and images the extraordinary diversity of Jewish life during the early modern period "A rich and varied gateway into the primary source material of early modern Jewish history that is very strong on geographical diversity. A magnificent achievement."--Adam Sutcliffe, King's College London The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5, covering the early modern period (1500-1750), presents a variety of Jewish texts to demonstrate the diversity of Jewish culture and life. These texts originate from Eastern and Western Europe, the Americas, the Ottoman Empire, North Africa, Kurdistan, Persia, Yemen, India--in short, a worldwide diaspora. They embrace historical writing and religious scholarship, liturgical expression and economic records, ethics and personal devotion, correspondence and communal regulations, art and music, architecture and poetry. The simultaneous centrifugal and centripetal character of Jewish communities during this era illustrates the distinctiveness of the early modern period in Jewish history and informs developments in world history at large. Including texts written by women, a robust collection of images, and extensive material not previously accessible to English-language readers, this volume is rich, deep, and enlightening.
Author : Fred David Astren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book History, Historicization, and Historical Claims in Karaite Jewish Literature written by Fred David Astren and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annelies Kuyt
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447054782
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Orient als Grenzbereich? written by Annelies Kuyt and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Vielfalt des Judentums spiegelt sich in seiner Beziehung zum Orient. Er ist biblische Heimat, Ursprung kultureller Fruchtbarkeit und innerjudische wie antijudische Auseinandersetzungen nahmen dort ihren Anfang. Die Grenze zu Europa blieb fl iessend und reichte im Westen bis zu den Pyrenaen und im Osten bis weit uber den Balkan. Dass die Reise in den Orient nicht nur ein exotisches, sondern auch ein philologisches Abenteuer sein kann, wird in vier chronologisch aufeinander folgenden Themenkreisen uber die Bedeutung des Orients fur die judische Geschichte untersucht. Sie umfassen biblische, karaische, medizinische, historiographische und mystische Texte sowie die moderne Rezeption des Orients in Hebraistik, Orientalistik und Reformjudentum. Der Band prasentiert Ergebnisse des Deutschen Orientalistentags in Halle an der Saale, der unter dem Motto "Barrieren - Passagen" stand. Forscher aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen demonstrieren, wie facettenreich orientwissenschaftliche Bezuge in der Judaistik sein konnen. Dabei gewinnen insbesondere jene Grenzbereiche scharfere Konturen, die bei der Betrachtung des rabbinischen Judentums bisher nicht im Mittelpunkt standen.
Author : Yehuda Feliks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Song of Songs written by Yehuda Feliks and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marina Rustow
Publisher : New York : The Library [of] The Jewish Theological Seminary
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scripture and Schism written by Marina Rustow and published by New York : The Library [of] The Jewish Theological Seminary. This book was released on 2000 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.
