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Author : Simcha Shtull-Trauring
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
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Download or read book Letters from Beyond the Sambatyon written by Simcha Shtull-Trauring and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matt GOLDISH
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037758
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Sabbatean Prophets written by Matt GOLDISH and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-seventeenth century, Shabbatai Zvi, a rabbi from Izmir, claimed to be the Jewish messiah, and convinced a great many Jews to believe him. The movement surrounding this messianic pretender was enormous, and Shabbatai's mission seemed to be affirmed by the numerous supporting prophecies of believers. The story of Shabbatai and his prophets has mainly been explored by specialists in Jewish mysticism. Only a few scholars have placed this large-scale movement in its social and historical context. Matt Goldish shifts the focus of Sabbatean studies from the theology of Lurianic Kabbalah to the widespread seventeenth-century belief in latter-day prophecy. The intense expectations of the messiah in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam form the necessary backdrop for understanding the success of Sabbateanism. The seventeenth century was a time of deep intellectual and political ferment as Europe moved into the modern era. The strains of the Jewish mysticism, Christian millenarianism, scientific innovation, and political transformation all contributed to the development of the Sabbatean movement. By placing Sabbateanism in this broad cultural context, Goldish integrates this Jewish messianic movement into the early modern world, making its story accessible to scholars and students alike. Table of Contents: Preface Prologue 1. Messianic Prophecy in the Early Modern Context 2. Nathan of Gaza and the Roots of Sabbatean Prophecy 3. From Mystical Vision to Prophetic Explosion 4. Opponents and Observers Respond 5. Prophecy after Shabbatais Apostasy Notes Index Reviews of this book: Goldish looks at the Jewish messianic surge of the 17th century, which culminated with the Sabbatean movement, and places it in a broader multidimensional context...He has produced a well-written, scholarly addition and modification to the literature. --Paul Kaplan, Library Journal
Author : Laura Dudley Jenkins
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812296001
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India written by Laura Dudley Jenkins and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinduism is the largest religion in India, encompassing roughly 80 percent of the population, while 14 percent of the population practices Islam and the remaining 6 percent adheres to other religions. The right to "freely profess, practice, and propagate religion" in India's constitution is one of the most comprehensive articulations of the right to religious freedom. Yet from the late colonial era to the present, mass conversions to minority religions have inflamed majority-minority relations in India and complicated the exercise of this right. In Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India, Laura Dudley Jenkins examines three mass conversion movements in India: among Christians in the 1930s, Dalit Buddhists in the 1950s, and Mizo Jews in the 2000s. Critics of these movements claimed mass converts were victims of overzealous proselytizers promising material benefits, but defenders insisted the converts were individuals choosing to convert for spiritual reasons. Jenkins traces the origins of these opposing arguments to the 1930s and 1940s, when emerging human rights frameworks and early social scientific studies of religion posited an ideal convert: an individual making a purely spiritual choice. However, she observes that India's mass conversions did not adhere to this model and therefore sparked scrutiny of mass converts' individual agency and spiritual sincerity. Jenkins demonstrates that the preoccupation with converts' agency and sincerity has resulted in significant challenges to religious freedom. One is the proliferation of legislation limiting induced conversions. Another is the restriction of affirmative action rights of low caste people who choose to practice Islam or Christianity. Last, incendiary rumors are intentionally spread of women being converted to Islam via seduction. Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India illuminates the ways in which these tactics immobilize potential converts, reinforce damaging assumptions about women, lower castes, and religious minorities, and continue to restrict religious freedom in India today.
Author : Eric H. Cline
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426212240
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)
Download or read book From Eden to Exile written by Eric H. Cline and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric H. Cline uses the tools of his trade to examine some of the most puzzling mysteries from the Hebrew Bible and, in the process, to narrate the history of ancient Israel. Combining the academic rigor that has won the respect of his peers with an accessible style that has made him a favorite with readers and students alike, he lays out each mystery, evaluates all available evidence—from established fact to arguable assumption to far-fetched leap of faith—and proposes an explanation that reconciles Scripture, science, and history. Numerous amateur archaeologists have sought some trace of Noah's Ark to meet only with failure. But, though no serious scholar would undertake such a literal search, many agree that the Flood was no myth but the cultural memory of a real, catastrophic inundation, retold and reshaped over countless generations. Likewise, some experts suggest that Joshua's storied victory at Jericho is the distant echo of an earthquake instead of Israel's sacred trumpets—a fascinating, geologically plausible theory that remains unproven despite the best efforts of scientific research. Cline places these and other Biblical stories in solid archaeological and historical context, debunks more than a few lunatic-fringe fantasies, and reserves judgment on ideas that cannot yet be confirmed or denied. Along the way, our most informed understanding of ancient Israel comes alive with dramatic but accurate detail in this groundbreaking, engrossing, entertaining book by one of the rising stars in the field.
Author : Michael Thomson Walton
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814338003
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith written by Michael Thomson Walton and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Anthonius Margaritha, convert to Christianity and reporter on Jewish life and religious practices. Born in the 1490s, Anthonius Margaritha was the grandson, son, and brother of noted rabbis and was perhaps the best-known Jew of his generation in Germany to convert to Christianity. When he became a Christian in 1521, he began a series of writings that were built on his Jewish life and learning but were intended to reveal the defects of his former faith. These writings, including a translation of the Hebrew prayer book into German and a refutation of the faith, The Entire Jewish Faith (Der gantz Jüdisch glaub), are well known to scholars, but Margaritha himself has been studied largely as an ethnographic type. In Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith: Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Germany, author Michael T. Walton looks more closely at Margaritha's life with the help of archival research and Margaritha's own writings. To present a full picture of Margaritha, Walton examines his life both before and after conversion. Walton details Margaritha's family history and Jewish life in a Christian Germany, including social customs and worship practices. After conversion, Walton examines Margaritha's time spent as a Hebrew teacher, polemicist, and paterfamilias and analyzes Margaritha's various works for their ethnographic and scholarly-polemical content. One thread that runs through Margaritha's life and writings, detailed here, is the importance to him of his debate with noted rabbi Joseph of Rosheim. Margaritha lost the debate and was imprisoned, but he continually referred to the issues raised and defended the correctness of his position in his treatises. Ultimately, this biography reveals Margaritha as a man who converted out of genuine conviction, but whose life thereafter must have been much different from what he anticipated. Scholars of Jewish and Christian history as well as those interested in German history, Hebrew pedagogy, and religious conversion will appreciate this thorough study.
Author : Howard Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195327136
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Tree of Souls written by Howard Schwartz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-27 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From tales of Adam, Moses, and other biblical figures, to the fall of Lucifer and the quarrel of the sun and moon, an anthology of Jewish myth presents seven hundred key stories and through extensive commentary places them in context with the literature of the world.
Author : Wolfram Brandes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110472635
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Peoples of the Apocalypse written by Wolfram Brandes and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, the collected papers examine distinctive aspects represented by each religion’s approach as well as shared concepts.
Author : Simon Dubnow
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the Jews: From the Roman Empire to the early medieval period written by Simon Dubnow and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1967 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Wolff
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
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Download or read book Journal, in a Series of Letters to Sir Thomas Baring written by Joseph Wolff and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph WOLFF
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Journal of ... J. W. in a series of Letters to Sir T. Baring, Bart; containing an account of his Missionary labours from the years 1827 to 1831; and from the years 1835 to 1838 written by Joseph WOLFF and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A.M. Klein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442638605
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Beyond Sambation written by A.M. Klein and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1982-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The broad range of A.M. Klein’s interests, ideas, and activities is reflected in this selection of articles, editorials, and reviews – a selection that also displays the qualities that distinguished all his creative writing and the highly idiosyncratic nature of his style. The writings in this volume span a most critical juncture in human affairs; a period that witnessed the Great Depression, the rise of fascism, Nazism, and communism, the Second World War, and the emergence of the State of Israel. As a journalist, Klein did more than record the events – he gave expression to the feelings of his people and helped shape their responses. His wide reading, sensitivity, and intelligence made him a perceptive observer and keen analyst, while his command of language, his passion, rhetoric, and wit, made him an eloquent spokesman. These qualities enabled him to carry out the responsibilities, as he saw them, of chronicler and champion. Though Klein’s major concern was with the Canadian Jewish scene, his interests were part of the mosaic of Canadian history and his work forms a chronicle and a commentary on events of world-wide significance. Klein’s journalism relates frequently, in both substance and language, to his poems and fiction, and thus provides a context for the study of his creative writing. It also reveals aspects of his personality, values, and commitments, contributing to our understanding and appreciation of one of Canada’s foremost writers.
Author : Anne Hart
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
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Download or read book Cyberscribes.1 written by Anne Hart and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Definitive guide to jobs in interactive media, including Web, virtual reality and online games. -- Interviews with leading industry experts from National Public Radio, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Internet World and others. -- Tied-in to summer '97 RealAudio and WebTV.
Author : Stanford M. Lyman
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610753500
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Roads to Dystopia, Sociological Essay on the Post Modern Condition (c) written by Stanford M. Lyman and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey
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Total Pages : 422 pages
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Download or read book Joseph and Benjamin: letters on the controversy between Jews and Christians written by Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick FREY
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book Joseph and Benjamin: a series of letters on the controversy between Jews and Christians ... Fifth edition written by Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick FREY and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonatan Meir
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004321640
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896-1948) written by Jonatan Meir and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book endeavors to fill a lacuna in the literature on early twentieth-century kabbalah, namely the lack of a comprehensive account of the traditional kabbalah in Jerusalem from 1896 to 1948.
Author : Sara E. Karesh
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816069824
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Judaism written by Sara E. Karesh and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated A to Z reference containing over 800 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to the religion of Judaism.
