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  • Fragile Finitude

    A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology

    by Michael Fishbane ...
    The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is through the symbolic forms of language that the human world of value is revealed—this is where religious scholar Michael Fishbane dwells in his latest contribution to Jewish thought.In Fragile Finitude, Fishbane clears new ground for a theological life through a novel ... Read more

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  • Ḥiddushim

    Celebrating Hebrew College’s Centennial

    A Centennial, writes Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, “is an invitation to reflect on the last century of teaching and learning at Hebrew College, to ask ourselves what has changed and what has endured, to explore accomplishments and share ongoing struggles, to articulate our aspirations for the next one hundred years.” A compilation of captivating essays on Jewish studies ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Primacies

    Experience, Expression, and the Jewish Imagination

    by Michael Fishbane ...
    A powerful exploration of how literature expresses and transforms our earliest preverbal experiences.Primacies begins with the assertion that our earliest preverbal experiences are accompanied by a primary language—a universal expression of tears, cries, and laughter offered long before we learn our distinctive, ordinary languages. For Michael Fishbane, these "primacies" release the raw feelings ... Read more

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  • Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver

    Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass

    by Eric Cohen, Rebecca Dresser, Michael Fishbane, Harvey Flaumenhaft, Amy Kass, Ralph Lerner, Yuval Levin, Paul Ludwig0, Nelson Lund1, Harvey C. Mansfield2, Paul McHugh3, Gilbert Meilaender4, Diana Schaub5 ...
    Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades-as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender of human dignity. From bioethics to civic education, from interpreting the Bible to weighing the moral implications of modern science, Kass has offered wisdom, guidance, and instruction. In this volume, fifteen of Kass's ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Superstition

    Belief in the Age of Science

    by Robert L. Park ...
    Why the battle between superstition and science is far from overFrom uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown them to ... Read more

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    by Joel L. Young, MD ...
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  • On the Improvement of the Understanding (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect) - The Original Classic Edition

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  • Through My Enemy's Eyes

    Envisioning Reconciliation in Israel-Palestine

    by Salim J Munayer, Lisa Loden ...
    This book addresses the universal theological dimension of reconciliation in the context of the Israeli Messianic Jewish and Palestinian Christian divide. Palestinian Christians and Israeli Messianic Jews share a belief in Jesus as the son of God and Messiah. Often, though, that is all they have in common. This remarkable book, written in collaboration by a local Palestinian Christian and ... Read more

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  • The Soul of Medicine

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    Edited by John R. Peteet, MD, Michael N. D'Ambra, MD ...
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  • Vaccine

    The Debate in Modern America

    by Mark A. Largent ...
    A thoughtful evaluation of the vaccine debate, its history, and its consequences.Since 1990, the number of mandated vaccines has increased dramatically. Today, a fully vaccinated child will have received nearly three dozen vaccinations between birth and age six. Along with the increase in number has come a growing wave of concern among parents about the unintended side effects of vaccines. In ... Read more

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