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  • The Chosen Few

    How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492

    by Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville to Mangalore. What caused this radical change? The Chosen Few presents a new answer to this question ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

    by Jared Diamond ...
    In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilizationEnvironmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Medieval Hebrew: The Midrash, the Kabbalah

    by anonymous ...
    Medieval collections of Jewish biblical lore and legend. From Volume 4 of The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East. This volulme includes the Tanhuma Midrash, poems of Judah Halevi, the Book Cusari, Commentaries of Rabbi Ben Ezra, Advice of Maimonides, and The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela. ... Read more

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  • How Judaism Became a Religion

    An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought

    by Leora Batnitzky ...
    Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period--and why Jewish thinkers have ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Jewish Jesus

    How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other

    by Peter Schäfer ...
    How the rise of Christianity profoundly influenced the development of Judaism in late antiquityIn late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Love of God

    Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism

    by Jon D. Levenson ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    "[An] original point of view. . . . A way of finding new meaning in . . . talking about God. It succeeds brilliantly on all counts." ― Jewish Book CouncilThe love of God is the most essential element in Judaism—but also the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How can an ... Read more

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  • The Origin of the Jews

    The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age

    by Steven Weitzman ...
    The first major history of the scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish originsThe Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be found in the Bible, others look to archaeology or genetics. Some skeptics have even sought to debunk the very idea ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Between Tel Aviv and Moscow

    A Life of Dissent and Exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union

    by Leah Trachtman-Palchan ...
    Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life. This was a life of migration, dissent, exile and survival. Born in the final years of Tsarist Russia, her family was forced to leave their small town following the repeated pogroms of the Civil War era. A two year voyage followed, bringing them all to British Mandate Palestine in 1921. Here what seems like a typical ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Beginning of Politics

    Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel

    by Moshe Halbertal, Stephen Holmes ...
    New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraftThe Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Women in the Hebrew Bible

    A Reader

    Edited by Alice Bach ...
    Women in the Hebrew Bible presents the first one-volume overview covering the interpretation of women's place in man's world within the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Written by the major scholars in the field of biblical studies and literary theory, these essays examine attitudes toward women and their status in ancient Near Eastern societies, focusing on the Israelite society portrayed by the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Contemporary Jewish Writing

    Austria After Waldheim

    by Andrea Reiter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication formats over the last 25 years. Beginning with the Waldheim affair and the rhetorical response by the three most prominent members of the survivor generation (Leon Zelman, Simon Wiesenthal and Bruno Kreisky) author Andrea Reiter sets a complicated standard ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue

    Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's "Duties of the Heart"

    by Diana Lobel ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Written in Judeo-Arabic in eleventh-century Muslim Spain but quickly translated into Hebrew, Bahya Ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart is a profound guidebook of Jewish spirituality that has enjoyed tremendous popularity and influence to the present day. Readers who know the book primarily in its Hebrew version have likely lost sight of the work's original Arabic context and its immersion in Islamic ... Read more

    $71.99 USD