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  • Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-First Century?

    The Relevance of the Ancient Jewish Text to Our World

    by Elizabeth Shanks Alexander, Tsvi Blanchard, Michael Chernick, Yaakov Elman, Pinchas Zuriel Hayman, Richard Kalmin, Jane Kanarek, Ephraim Kanarfogel, David Novak, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Devora Steinmetz, Barry Wimpfheimer, Azzan Yadin, Devorah Zlochower, Shaye J.D. Cohen, Judith R. Baskin ...
    The Talmud is the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. It is a conglomerate of law, legend, and philosophy, a blend of unique logic and shrewd pragmatism, of history and science, of anecdotes and humor. Unfortunately, its sometimes complex subject matter often seems irrelevant in today's world. In this edited volume, sixteen eminent North American and Israeli scholars from several ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

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  • Five Volumes of Spiritual Wisdom: The Wisdom of the Torah, The Wisdom of the Talmud, The Wisdom of the Koran, The Wisdom of Muhammad, and The Wisdom of Buddha

    The Wisdom of the Torah, The Wisdom of the Talmud, The Wisdom of the Koran, The Wisdom of Muhammad, and The Wisdom of Buddha

    by Philosophical Library ...
    Series series The Wisdom Series
    Words of ancient wisdom from some of the world’s most seminal textsThe Wisdom of the Torah is an instruction in the central beliefs of three world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But by observing the Torah, or the Hebrew Bible, as a collected work of multiple authors spanning generations, the modern reader can look beyond its fundamental instruction. In these works, readers find many ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Jewish

    The Challenges, Rewards, and Paths to Conversion

    by Jennifer S. Hanin, Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben ...
    Becoming Jewish is the first all-inclusive, step-by-step guide to converting to Judaism. Steven Carr Reuben, a highly respected rabbi, and Jennifer S. Hanin, a convert to the faith, lead readers through the conversion process, providing the right mix of advice, resources and humor for the journey.Jews-to-be often find the steps to Judaism foreign, complex, and mysterious. From learning an ancient ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Becoming Un-Orthodox

    Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews

    by Lynn Davidman ...
    Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits. Davidman bases her analysis on in-depth conversations with forty ex-Hasidic individuals. From these conversations emerge accounts of the great fear, angst, and sense of danger that come of leaving a highly bounded enclave community. Many of those ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Sacred Treasure—The Cairo Genizah: The Amazing Discoveries of Forgotten Jewish History in an Egyptian Synagogue Attic

    by Rabbi Mark Glickman ...
    Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code in an old Egyptian synagoguethe amazing story of one of the most important discoveries in modern religious scholarship.In 1896, Rabbi Solomon Schechter of Cambridge University stepped into the attic of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, and there found the largest treasure trove of medieval and early manuscripts ever discovered. He had entered the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Nonreligious

    Understanding Secular People and Societies

    by Phil Zuckerman, Luke W. Galen, Frank L. Pasquale ...
    The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analysis of existing social scientific research on secular people and societies. The authors present a thorough overview of existing knowledge while ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities

    Edited by Becky R. Lee, Terry Tak-ling Woo ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Women and Religion
    This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women’s religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their cultures—old and new—in modern Canada.Each essay explores the ways in which the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Talmud for Beginners

    Prayer

    by Judith Z. Abrams ...
    The Talmud is filled with knowledge, inspiration, and insights that enrich all facets of Jewish life. Yet many are intimidated by the thought of studying its text, and their hesitancy prevents them from experiencing the wisdom of its words. In this new volume, Rabbi Judith Abrams takes readers with her on a journey through one volume of the Talmud, offering reassuring guidance and making it ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Why the Jews Rejected Jesus

    The Turning Point in Western History

    by David Klinghoffer ...
    Why did the Jews reject Jesus? Was he really the son of God? Were the Jews culpable in his death? These ancient questions have been debated for almost two thousand years, most recently with the release of Mel Gibson’s explosive The Passion of the Christ. The controversy was never merely academic. The legal status and security of Jews—often their very lives—depended on the answer.In WHY THE JEWS ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Beginner's Guide to the Steinsaltz Talmud

    by Judith Z. Abrams ...
    In A Beginner's Guide to The Steinsaltz Talmud, Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams selects a fascinating and provocative section from the Talmud and helps students to reap the vast rewards that can be achieved when one encounters Rabbi Steinsaltz's historic, ground-breaking work.With the publication of The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition, it is now possible for the modern reader to study Judaism's great ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory

    by Joshua Ezra Burns ...
    How did Jews perceive the first Christians? By what means did they come to appreciate Christianity as a religion distinct from their own? In The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory, Professor Joshua Ezra Burns addresses those questions by describing the birth of Christianity as a function of the Jewish past. Surveying a range of ancient evidences, he examines how the authors of ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • A Club of Their Own

    Jewish Humorists and the Contemporary World

    Edited by Eli Lederhendler, Gabriel N. Finder ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Jewry
    Volume XXIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry takes its title from a joke by Groucho Marx: "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member." The line encapsulates one of the most important characteristics of Jewish humor: the desire to buffer oneself from potentially unsafe or awkward situations, and thus to achieve social and emotional freedom. By studying the history and ... Read more

    $69.29 USD