Theological Encounters at a Crossroads

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004380310
Total Pages : 820 pages
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Book Synopsis Theological Encounters at a Crossroads by : Daniel Lasker

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: Judah Hadassi was the most prominent Karaite Jewish author of twelfth-century Byzantium, steeped in Karaite and Byzantine Greek traditions. In Theological Encounters at a Crossroads: An Edition and Translation of Judah Hadassi’s Eshkol ha-kofer, First Commandment, and Studies of the Book’s Judaeo-Arabic and Byzantine Contexts, a scientific edition of the first quarter of the Hebrew text of Hadassi’s magnum opus is presented with an English translation, a summary of his theology, a discussion of his use of the Greek language, and a linguistic analysis and transcription of all the Greek terms which appear in Hebrew letters in the entire treatise. This book should be of interest to students of Jewish thought, Hebrew literature and medieval Byzantine culture and language.

Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035180
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Book Synopsis Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding by : Fred Astren

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.

Karaite Marriage Documents from the Cairo Geniza

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004108868
Total Pages : 562 pages
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Book Synopsis Karaite Marriage Documents from the Cairo Geniza by : Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Download or read book Karaite Marriage Documents from the Cairo Geniza written by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The edition and linguistic, palaeographic and legal analysis of 65 marriage documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza shed a unique light on the socio-economic and intellectual history of the mediaeval Karaite Jews who wrote them.

From Judah Hadassi to Elijah Bashyatchi

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904744227X
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Book Synopsis From Judah Hadassi to Elijah Bashyatchi by : Daniel Lasker

Download or read book From Judah Hadassi to Elijah Bashyatchi written by Daniel Lasker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study challenges the oft-repeated assertion that Karaite thought remained unchanged throughout the Middle Ages. It discusses major Karaite thinkers and their writings, in addition to the impact of Karaism on Rabbanite Judaism, especially on the thought of Maimonides.

The Jewish Encyclopedia

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Total Pages : 712 pages
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Book Synopsis The Jewish Encyclopedia by : Isidore Singer

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Exegesis and Poetry in Medieval Karaite and Rabbanite Texts

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004334785
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Book Synopsis Exegesis and Poetry in Medieval Karaite and Rabbanite Texts by : Joachim Yeshaya

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.

A History of Palestine, 634-1099

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521404372
Total Pages : 1008 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of Palestine, 634-1099 by : Moshe Gil

Download or read book A History of Palestine, 634-1099 written by Moshe Gil and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1992-02-20 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moshe Gil's history of Palestine from the Muslim conquest to the Crusades was the first comprehensive survey of its kind. Based on an impressive array of sources, the author examines the lives of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities of Palestine against a background of the political and military events of the period.

Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791489884
Total Pages : 335 pages
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Book Synopsis Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition by : Eric Lawee

Download or read book Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition written by Eric Lawee and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2002 Nauchman Sokol-Mollie Halberstadt Prize in Biblical/Rabbinic Scholarship presented by the Canadian Jewish Book Awards Finalist, 2002 Scholarship Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award presented by the National Jewish Book Council Financier and courtier to the kings of Portugal, Spain, and Italy and Spanish Jewry's foremost representative at court at the time of its 1492 expulsion, Isaac Abarbanel was also Judaism's leading scholar at the turn of the sixteenth century. His work has had a profound influence on both his contemporaries and later thinkers, Jewish and Christian. Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition is the first full-length study of Abarbanel in half a century. The book considers a wide range of Abarbanel's writings, focusing for the first time on the dominant exegetical side of his intellectual achievements as reflected in biblical commentaries and messianic writings. Author Eric Lawee approaches Abarbanel's work from the perspective of his negotiations with texts and teachings bequeathed to him from the Jewish past. The work provides insight into the important spiritual and intellectual developments in late medieval and early modern Judaism while offering a portrait of a complex scholar whose stance before tradition combined conservatism with creativity and reverence with daring.

Kabbalah

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300046991
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (469 download)

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Book Synopsis Kabbalah by : Moshe Idel

Download or read book Kabbalah written by Moshe Idel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this prizewinning new interpretation of Jewish mysticism, Moshe Idel emphasizes the need for a comparative and phenomenological approach to Kabbalah and its position in the history of religion. Idel provides fresh insights into the origins of Jewish mysticism, the relation between mystical and historical experience, and the impact of Jewish mysticism on western civilization. "Idel's book is studded with major insights, and innovative approaches to the entire history of Judaism, and mastery of it will be essential for all serious students of Jewish thought."--Arthur Green, New York Times Book Review "Moshe Idel's original, scholarly, and stimulating study of Kabbalah contains the promise of a masterwork."--Elie Wiesel "Moshe Idel's book can help the nonspecialized reader to reconsider the whole of Kabbalistic tradition in comparison with many aspects of contemporary thought."--Umberto Eco "There can be no dispute about the importance and originality of Idel's work. Offering a wealth of complementary insights to Gershom Scholem and his school, it will command a great deal of attention and serious discussion."--Alexander Altmann

Tree of Souls

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195327136
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Tree of Souls by : Howard Schwartz

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: Drawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore collected in the modern era, Schwartz has gathered together nearly 700 of the key Jewish myths. For each myth, he includes extensive commentary, revealing the source of the myth and explaining how it relates to other Jewish myths as well as to world literature --from publisher description

Kinship, Law and Politics

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499686
Total Pages : 171 pages
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Book Synopsis Kinship, Law and Politics by : Joseph E. David

Download or read book Kinship, Law and Politics written by Joseph E. David and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to how belonging and identity have been reflected, modified, and rearticulated in crucial moments throughout history.

The Name Israel

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666767034
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Book Synopsis The Name Israel by : Michael J. Alter

Download or read book The Name Israel written by Michael J. Alter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel is a divine name. The Name Israel is a scholarly, niche project that provides its readers with an informative, meaningful, and spiritually uplifting reading experience. The purpose of The Name Israel is to investigate the name employing four levels of study (PaRDeS): peshat, remez, derash, and sod. Each level is deeper and more profound than its predecessor. This text is divided into eight chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 explore the historical name Israel and pardes (four methods of Bible interpretation). The book also presents details about the shapes and sizes of the letters, permutations of Israel, anagrams, and gematria (numerology). Additionally, it includes a discussion of the Four World system, the ten sefirot, and an overview of parshat Vayishlach (Gen 32:4–33 and Gen 35:10). Throughout, The Name Israel analyzes the first word of the Torah (Bereshit) and the creation process. Readers will be fascinated as it also delves into facts about the numbers 2, 701, 37, 73, and 541; “The end of the action was at first in thought”; unique features (and hints) of the letters forming the name Israel; and concluding remarks. Come and learn!

Jews in Byzantium

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004203559
Total Pages : 1059 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Jews in Byzantium by : Robert Bonfil

Download or read book Jews in Byzantium written by Robert Bonfil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 1059 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine Jews: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures is the collective product of a three year research group convened under the auspices of Scholion: Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The volume provides both a survey and an analysis of the social and cultural history of Byzantine Jewry from its inception until the fifteenth century, within the wider context of the Byzantine world.

Karaite Judaism

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004294260
Total Pages : 1013 pages
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Book Synopsis Karaite Judaism by : Meira Polliack

Download or read book Karaite Judaism written by Meira Polliack and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karaism is a Jewish religious movement of a scripturalist and messianic nature, which emerged in the Middle Ages in the areas of Persia-Iraq and Palestine and has maintained its unique and varied forms of identity and existence until the present day, undergoing resurgent cycles of creativity, within its major geographical centres of the Middle-East, Byzantium-Turkey, the Crimea and Eastern Europe. This Guide to Karaite Studies contains thirty-seven chapters which cover all the main areas of medieval and modern Karaite history and literature, including geographical and chronological subdivisions, and special sections devoted to the history of research, manuscripts and printing, as well as detailed bibliographies, index and illustrations. The substantial volume reflects the current state of scholarship in this rapidly growing sub-field of Jewish Studies, as analysed by an international team of experts and taught in various universities throughout Europe, Israel and the United States.

Ki Baruch Hu

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575065150
Total Pages : 711 pages
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Book Synopsis Ki Baruch Hu by : R. Chazan

Download or read book Ki Baruch Hu written by R. Chazan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1999-06-23 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known to most readers as author of Leviticus in the Jewish Publication Society Torah Commentary series and Numbers 1–20 in the Anchor Bible series, as well as numerous essays in Bible dictionaries and encyclopedias, Baruch Levine holds the place of honor in this collection. The volume has been compiled by the students, colleagues, and friends known to him over his many years of professorship at New York University. Included in the festschrift are 36 essays in English and 5 essays in Hebrew.

Next Year in Jerusalem

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Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612496040
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Book Synopsis Next Year in Jerusalem by : Leonard J. Greenspoon

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.

Mother of Reason and Revelation

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900445389X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Mother of Reason and Revelation by : Irene Zwiep

Download or read book Mother of Reason and Revelation written by Irene Zwiep and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a first inventory of Medieval Jewish linguistic thinking, covering the period from Sa'adya Gaon to Profiat Duran. The author claims that the Hebrew grammatical tradition itself contains but vague reminiscences of actual linguistic thinking. However, contemporary philosophical treatises, exegetical works, and scientific encyclopedias of Rabbanite and Karaite provenance provide these reminiscences with a general theoretical background.