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Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Masekhet Sanhedrin written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael S. Berger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195122690
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Rabbinic Authority written by Michael S. Berger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Michael S. Berger analyzes the notion of Rabbinic authority from a philosophical standpoint. He sets out a typology of theories that can be used to understand the authority of these Sages, showing the coherence of each, its strengths and weaknesses, and what aspects of the Rabbinic enterprise it covers. His careful and thorough analysis reveals that owing to the multifaceted character of the Rabbinic enterprise, no single theory is adequate to fully ground Rabbinic authority as traditionally understood. Students of Judaism and philosophers of religion in general will be intrigued by this philosophical examination of a central issue of Judaism.
Author : Beth A. Berkowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198039840
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Execution and Invention written by Beth A. Berkowitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death penalty in classical Judaism has been a highly politicized subject in modern scholarship. Enlightenment attacks on the Talmud's legitimacy led scholars to use the Talmud's criminal law as evidence for its elevated morals. But even more pressing was the need to prove Jews' innocence of the charge of killing Christ. The reconstruction of a just Jewish death penalty was a defense against the accusation that a corrupt Jewish court was responsible for the death of Christ. In Execution and Invention, Beth A. Berkowitz tells the story of modern scholarship on the ancient rabbinic death penalty and offers a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism, and talmudic source criticism. Against the scholarly consensus, Berkowitz argues that the early Rabbis used the rabbinic laws of the death penalty to establish their power in the wake of the destruction of the Temple. Following recent currents in historiography, Berkowitz sees the Rabbis as an embattled, almost invisible sect within second-century Judaism. The function of their death penalty laws, Berkowitz contends, was to create a complex ritual of execution under rabbinic control, thus bolstering rabbinic claims to authority in the context of Roman political and cultural domination. Understanding rabbinic literature to be in dialogue with the Bible, with the variety of ancient Jews, and with Roman imperialism, Berkowitz shows how the Rabbis tried to create an appealing alternative to the Roman, paganized culture of Palestine's Jews. In their death penalty, the Rabbis substituted Rome's power with their own. Early Christians, on the other hand, used death penalty discourse to critique judicial power. But Berkowitz argues that the Christian critique of execution produced new claims to authority as much as the rabbinic embrace. By comparing rabbinic conversations about the death penalty with Christian ones, Berkowitz reveals death penalty discourse as a significant means of creating authority in second-century western religious cultures. Advancing the death penalty discourse as a discourse of power, Berkowitz sheds light on the central relationship between religious and political authority and the severest form of punishment.
Author : Jerry Z. Muller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691259305
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Professor of Apocalypse written by Jerry Z. Muller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt. Professor of Apocalypse is the definitive biography of this enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century intellectual life. Jerry Muller shows how Taubes’s personal tensions mirrored broader conflicts between religious belief and scholarship, allegiance to Jewish origins and the urge to escape them, tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. He traces Taubes’s emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle Paul, influencing generations of scholars, and how his journey led him from crisis theology to the Frankfurt School, and from a radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the center of academic debates over Gnosticism, secularization, and the revolutionary potential of apocalypticism. Professor of Apocalypse offers an unforgettable account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic personality who thrived on controversy and conflict.
Author : Benjamin Porat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317200403
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Jewish Law Annual Volume 22 written by Benjamin Porat and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 22 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1–21 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in Jewish law. This volume features articles on rabbinic criminal law, tort law, jurisprudence, and judicial practice.
Author : Yujin Nagasawa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137486090
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of the Afterlife written by Yujin Nagasawa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique Handbook provides a sophisticated, scholarly overview of the most advanced thought regarding the idea of life after death. Its comprehensive coverage encompasses historical, religious, philosophical and scientific thinking. Starting with an overview of ancient thought on the topic, The Palgrave Handbook of the Afterlife examines in detail the philosophical coherence of the main traditional notions of the nature of the afterlife including heaven, hell, purgatory and rebirth. In addition (and breaking with traditional conceptions) it also explores the most recent exciting advance – digital models. Later sections include analysis of various possible metaphysical accounts that might make sense of the afterlife (including substance dualism, emergent dualism and materialism) and the science of near death experiences as well as the links between human psychology and our attitude to the afterlife. Key features: • Grounded in the most advanced philosophical, theological and scientific thinking • Contributions by eminent scholars from the world’s top universities • Balanced treatment of fundamental issues that are relevant to everyone • Diverse approaches ranging from the religious to the scientific, from the optimistic to the pessimistic • A major section on the meaning of the afterlife which includes chapters on fear, purpose, evil, and issues regarding identity The Palgrave Handbook of the Afterlife is essential reading for scholars, researchers and advanced students researching attitudes to and effects of beliefs about death and life after death from philosophical, historical, religious, psychological and scientific perspectives.
Author : Dov Abraham Ben-Shorr
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847532985
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (475 download)
Download or read book From The Guardian's Vineyard on Sefer B'reshith (the Book of Genesis) written by Dov Abraham Ben-Shorr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Guardian's Vineyard is a multi-level commentary on the Hebrew Bible. It is a glimpse into the treasure faithfully transmitted from the ancient Jewish sages, the "Guardians," of the Holy One's "Vineyard," Israel. Bridging the Oral and the Written Tradition, the simple and the esoteric as well as explaining many rituals and practices harvested from the "vineyard," both the newcomer and the seasoned student of the Bible will find an appetizing taste of that "which is contained within." This volume is an extensive commentary on the first book of the Torah (Bible), the book of Genesis. Included are detailed explanations, and descriptions of ritual and practices connected with the various verses, as well as many deep Qabalistic insights.
Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004280812
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Avi Sagi: Existentialism, Pluralism, and Identity written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avi Sagi is Professor of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. A philosopher, literary critic, scholar of cultural studies, historian and philosopher of halakhah, public intellectual, social critic, and educator, Sagi has written most lucidly on the challenges that face humanity, Judaism, and Israeli society today. As an intertextual thinker, Sagi integrates numerous strands within contemporary philosophy, while critically engaging Jewish and non-Jewish philosophers. Offering an insightful defense of pluralism and multiculturalism, his numerous writings integrate philosophy, religion, theology, jurisprudence, psychology, art, literature, and politics, charting a new path for Jewish thought in the twenty-first century.
Author : Daniel Roth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197566774
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Third-party Peacemakers in Judaism written by Daniel Roth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism presents thirty-six case studies featuring third-party peacemakers found within Jewish rabbinic literature. Each case study is explored through three layers of analysis: text, theory, and practice. The textual analysis consists of close literary and historical readings of legends and historical accounts as found within classical, medieval, and early-modern rabbinic literature, many of which are critically analyzed here for the first time. The theoretical analysis consists of analyzing the models of third-party peacemaking imbedded within the various cases studies by comparing them with other cultural and religious models of third-party peacemaking and conflict resolution, in particular the Arab-Islamic sulha and contemporary Interactive Problem-Solving Workshops. The final layer of analysis, based upon the author's personal experiences in years of dong conflict resolution education, trainings, and actual third-party religious peacemaking in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, relates to the potential practical implications of these case studies to serve as indigenous models and sources of inspiration for third-party mediation and peacemaking in both interpersonal and intergroup conflicts today"--
Author : Berachyahu Lifshitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9789057026195
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Jewish Law Annual written by Berachyahu Lifshitz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diverse collection of scholarly articles on a variety of topics related to Jewish law. Among the ten articles are two different analyses of the married woman's rights with respect to use of marital property; a study of the principles used by Maimonides in enumerating the precepts; two articles on the question of whether halakhic inferences can be drawn from the interchangeable use of synonymous terms in the Talmud; and a bibliography of the writings of the Boaz Cohen. The chronicle section contains a study of developments pertaining to the litigation surrounding the Kiryas Joel school district and the separation of church and state. The last section of the volume surveys recent literature on biblical and Jewish law.
Author : Galit Hasan-Rokem
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195356322
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Untying the Knot written by Galit Hasan-Rokem and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and literature scholars consider riddling practices in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. The authors seek to understand the peculiar expressive power of the riddle, and the cultural logic of its particular uses; they scrutinize the riddle's logical structure and linguistic strategies, as well as its affinity to neighboring genres such as enigmas, puzzles, oracular prophecy, proverbs, and dreams. In this way, they begin to answer how riddles relate to the conceptual structures of a particular culture, and how they come to represent a culture's cosmology or cognitive map of the world. More importantly, these essays reveal the human need for symbolic ordering--riddles being one such form of cultural ritual.
Author : Abraham Melamed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135789835
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture written by Abraham Melamed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of the image of the Black as 'other' in the history of Jewish cultures, from the first formulations in Biblical literature to early modern times.
Author : Eric Lawee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019093784X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Rashi's Commentary on the Torah written by Eric Lawee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Jewish Book Council Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award in Scholarship This book explores the reception history of the most important Jewish Bible commentary ever composed, the Commentary on the Torah of Rashi (Shlomo Yitzhaki; 1040-1105). Though the Commentary has benefited from enormous scholarly attention, analysis of diverse reactions to it has been surprisingly scant. Viewing its path to preeminence through a diverse array of religious, intellectual, literary, and sociocultural lenses, Eric Lawee focuses on processes of the Commentary's canonization and on a hitherto unexamined--and wholly unexpected--feature of its reception: critical, and at times astonishingly harsh, resistance to it. Lawee shows how and why, despite such resistance, Rashi's interpretation of the Torah became an exegetical classic, a staple in the curriculum, a source of shared religious vocabulary for Jews across time and place, and a foundational text that shaped the Jewish nation's collective identity. The book takes as its larger integrating perspective processes of canonicity as they shape how traditions flourish, disintegrate, or evolve. Rashi's scriptural magnum opus, the foremost work of Franco-German (Ashkenazic) biblical scholarship, faced stiff competition for canonical supremacy in the form of rationalist reconfigurations of Judaism as they developed in Mediterranean seats of learning. It nevertheless emerged triumphant in an intense battle for Judaism's future that unfolded in late medieval and early modern times. Investigation of the reception of the Commentary throws light on issues in Jewish scholarship and spirituality that continue to stir reflection, and even passionate debate, in the Jewish world today.
Author : James L. Kugel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004136304
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book The Idea of Biblical Interpretation written by James L. Kugel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Festschrift, James Kugel's creative scholarship in biblical interpretation provides the inspiration for a wide-ranging collection of essays that treat the history of Jewish and Christian scriptural interpretation from antiquity to the present
Author : Hanina Ben-Menahem
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482227959
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Authority, Process and Method written by Hanina Ben-Menahem and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-05-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume were originally published in Hebrew in Shenaton Hamishpat Haivri and address Jewish law, both in its own context and in the context of contemporary jurisprudence. Contributions range from discussion of the rabbincal court to the doctrine of binding precedent, and from the basis of judicial authority to the legal defence
Author : Ari Ackerman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004518657
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation written by Ari Ackerman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the conception of God of the medieval Jewish philosopher and legal scholar, Hasdai Crescas (1340-1410/11). It demonstrates that Crescas’ God is infinitely creative and good and explores the parallel that Crescas implicitly draws between God as creator and legislator.
Author : Amnon Levy
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398447323
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Gardens of Deprivation written by Amnon Levy and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first four decades of my life were spent in a small country that was nested in a hostile and unstable old region, Israel. I strongly felt, enjoyed, and participated in, the revival of that country and experienced the uneasy reintegration of the returning descendants of Abraham, Issac and Jacob from the four corners of the world. I have felt the pain of the less happy residents of that reviving country. In particular, I have felt the hardship of the Mizrachi Israelis – the Jewish returnees and refugees from Arab countries. I have wished to live in a world that is not divided by religion, ethnicity and skin colour. As there is no such world, I embraced the second best – the remote, sparsely populated southern continent that has provided a home to convicts and refugees from the old world. I arrived in that continent, Australia, at almost forty years of age with an already developed strong sensitivity to ethnic-based social injustices. My tales from my land of origin and from my land of choice record interwoven personal and national memoirs of ethnically based inequalities and injustices. I wrote those tales with a hope that they will make a contribution to the moderation of the intensity of such social problems. The colour of my tales is brown – the typical colour of the skin of the Mizrachi Israelis and the colour of many members of the minority ethnic groups that live in Australia.
