Category: Sacred Writings

By Itzhak Benyamini

ISBN-10: 1137595086

ISBN-13: 9781137595089

ISBN-10: 1137595094

ISBN-13: 9781137595096

In this ebook Itzhak Benyamini offers an alternate interpreting of Genesis, an in depth textual research from the tale of production to the binding of Isaac. This interpreting deals the opportunity of a tender relation to God, now not one characterised through worry and awe. the amount offers Don-Abraham-Quixote now not as a perpetual knight of religion yet as a crafty believer within the face of God's calls for of him. Benyamini reads Genesis with no making concessions to God, asking approximately Him earlier than He examines the guts of Adam, Noah, Abraham, and the opposite knights of religion (if they're quite that). during this means, the remark on Genesis turns into a platform for a brand new form of severe theology. via this unconventional rereading of the favourite biblical textual content, the publication makes an attempt to extract a distinct ethic, one who demanding situations the Kierkegaardian call for of blind religion in an all-knowing ethical God and provides in its stead another, daily ethic. The ethic that Benyamini uncovers is characterised via kin continuity and culture meant to make sure that very axis—familial permanence and resilience within the face of the hard and capricious legislations of God and the typical hardships of lifestyles.

By Oded Yisraeli, Liat Keren

ISBN-10: 3110439506

ISBN-13: 9783110439502

This monograph discusses the Zohar, an important booklet of the Kabbalah, as a past due strata of the Midrashic literature. the writer concentrates at the 'expanded' biblical tales within the Zohar and on its dating to the traditional Talmudic Aggadah. The analytical and important exam of those biblical topics finds facets of continuity and alter within the background of the outdated Aggadic tale and its manner into the Zoharic corpus.

By Steve Savedow

ISBN-10: 1578631688

ISBN-13: 9781578631681

ISBN-10: 1578631939

ISBN-13: 9781578631933

An exhilarating, long-awaited first English translation of this recognized, old, magical textual content * noticeable because the unique resource for later, conventional literature on angelic hierarchy, astrology, Qabalah, and Gematrla * comprises large explanatory textual content at the holy names of God, the divisions of Heaven and Hell, and the names and hierarchy of the angels and spirits * bargains huge statement on astronomy, astrology, and symbolic interpretations of either the booklet of Genesis and the Sepher Yezira Now in the end, the long-awaited first English translation-from historic Hebrew--of the infrequent and whole 1701 Amsterdam variation of this well-known magical textual content. based on Hebrew legend, the Sepher Rezial was once given to Adam within the backyard of Eden through the hand of God. the parable means that this various compendium of old Hebrew lore was once the 1st ebook ever written.

By Abraham J. Heschel

ISBN-10: 0060936991

ISBN-13: 9780060936990

Abraham Heschel is a seminal identify in spiritual experiences and the writer of Man isn't really Alone and God looking for Man. while The Prophets used to be first released in 1962, it used to be instantly famous as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship.

The Prophets presents a special chance for readers of the previous testomony, either Christian and Jewish, to achieve clean and deep wisdom of Israel's prophetic stream. The author's profound knowing of the prophets additionally opens the door to new perception into the philosophy of religion.

By David Noel Freedman

ISBN-10: 1575060388

ISBN-13: 9781575060385

From the Preface: "The alphabetic acrostic is among the most simply identifiable poetic varieties within the Hebrew Bible. Examples are available in prophetic discourse (Nahum), the lament over the destruction of Jerusalem (Lamentations), liturgical tune (Psalms), and knowledge literature (Proverbs). but its very obviousness has tended to deflect deeper exploration of its constitution and function. due to the fact that Mowinckel denigrated the acrostics within the Psalms as a 'disintegration of style,' too usually students have easily famous after which neglected the form.

"There isn't any a priori cause that alphabetic acrostics may be much less inventive, expressive, or complicated than different psalms. hence the essays accumulated right here examine the acrostic layout as a sound alternative for Israelite poets instead of because the safe haven of uninspired epigones....The fruit of over 20 years' shut examining of those psalms, the subsequent essays demonstrate the poets' consummate mastery of the challenging acrostic shape and deserve incorporation in destiny discussions of biblical poetic art."

By David Kraemer

ISBN-10: 0195096231

ISBN-13: 9780195096231

ISBN-10: 0195357248

ISBN-13: 9780195357240

Frequently, the Talmud was once learn as legislation, that's, because the authoritative resource for Jewish perform and tasks. To this finish, it used to be studied on the point of its so much minute information, with readers usually ignoring the composite entire and attending in simple terms to ultimate judgements. equipment of analyzing have shifted as extra readers and scholars have grew to become to the Talmud for facts of rabbinic background, faith, rhetoric, or anthropology; nonetheless, few have hired a surely literary technique. In Reading the Rabbis, Kraemer makes an attempt to fill this hole. He makes use of the instruments built within the learn of alternative literatures, really rhetorical and reader-response criticisms, to unearth formerly left out degrees of that means. His ebook bargains a brand new knowing of the complexity of Rabbinic Judaism, and a brand new version of rabbinic piety.

By Danya Ruttenberg

ISBN-10: 0814776043

ISBN-13: 9780814776049

In this distinctive selection of essays, a few of contemporary smartest Jewish thinkers discover a huge variety of basic questions with a view to stability old culture and smooth sexuality.

In the previous couple of a long time a couple of factors—post-modernism, feminism, queer liberation, and more—have introduced dialogue of sexuality to the fore, and with it a complete new set of questions that problem established traditions and methods of considering. For Jews of all backgrounds, this has frequently resulted in an unsatisfied standoff among culture and sexual empowerment.

Yet as The Passionate Torah illustrates, it's of serious significance to determine past this obvious clash if Jews are to embody either their spiritual ideals and their sexuality. With incisive essays from modern rabbis, students, thinkers, and writers, this assortment not just surveys the demanding situations that sexuality poses to Jewish trust, but additionally deals clean new views and insights at the altering position of sexuality inside Jewish theology—and Jewish lives. overlaying issues similar to monogamy, inter-faith relationships, reproductive know-how, homosexuality, and a bunch of alternative hot-button concerns, those writings think of how modern Jews can have interaction themselves, their family, and their culture in a manner that is either horny and sanctified.

Seeking to deepen the Jewish dialog approximately sexuality, The Passionate Torah brings jointly wonderful thinkers in an try to bridge the space among the sacred and the sexual.

Contributors: Rebecca Alpert, Wendy Love Anderson, Judith R. Baskin, Aryeh Cohen, Elliot Dorff, Esther Fuchs, Bonna Haberman, Elliot Kukla, Gail Labovitz, Malka Landau, Sarra Lev, Laura Levitt, Sara Meirowitz, Jay Michaelson, Haviva Ner-David, Danya Ruttenberg, Naomi Seidman, and Arthur Waskow.

By Didier Lafleur

ISBN-10: 9004192476

ISBN-13: 9789004192478

As a primary order witness of the Greek New testomony, kin thirteen has an extended heritage within the box of textual feedback. approximately seventy years after Kirsopp and Silva Lake’s ebook, l. a. Famille thirteen dans l’évangile de Marc bargains an enlarged, absolutely updated and punctiliously revised examine of the textual content of the Gospel of Mark for the witnesses regarded as family by means of Didier Lafleur. His huge survey contains the heritage of the invention of the manuscripts, their codicological description and new learn at the textual content. the main a part of the booklet is dedicated to the version of minuscule 788 (Athens, Nat. Lib. 74), thought of by way of the writer because the nearest member to the archetype of the crowd (f 13). in line with particularly new collations for the all extant manuscripts, the variation presents a good apparatus.

Considérée comme témoin de most advantageous ordre du Nouveau testomony grec, los angeles Famille thirteen s’enracine profondément dans l’histoire de l. a. critique. Soixante-dix ans après los angeles booklet de Kirsopp et Silva Lake, l. a. Famille thirteen dans l’évangile de Marc offre un landscape exhaustif sur le texte de cet évangile pour les témoins considérés par Didier Lafleur comme membres de ce groupe (f 13). Son étude englobe l. a. mise en lumière des manuscrits, leur description codicologique et de nouvelles recherches philologiques. L’auteur édite le texte du minuscule 788 (Athènes, Bibl. nat. 74), qu’il considère comme le témoin le plus proche de l’archétype de los angeles famille. Collationés à nouveaux frais pour le texte de Marc, tous les manuscrits de los angeles Famille thirteen apparaissent ici pour l. a. première fois dans une édition critique.

By Renate Egger-Wenzel

ISBN-10: 3110175592

ISBN-13: 9783110175592

Die Rede von Gott im Buch Ben Sira wird vor alt- und neutestamentlichem Hintergrund beleuchtet. Der Tagungsband enthält sowohl übergreifende als auch exegetische Einzeluntersuchungen zur Thematik. Ein Ausblick auf die jüdische Wirkungsgeschichte rundet das Bild ab. Der Anhang bietet neben Einzeluntersuchungen auch different Berichte im Zusammenhang des Buches Ben Sira und eine Corrigendaliste zur Textausgabe von %. Beentjes.

What is expounded approximately God in Ben Sira is illuminated opposed to previous and New testomony history. This quantity of lawsuits includes separate overarching and exegetic reviews at the subject material. A large attention of Jewish effect all through heritage rounds out the image. as well as person experiences, the appendix deals quite a few experiences on the subject of Ben Sira and a listing of errata for the version by means of P. C. Beentjes.

By Saul M. Olyan

ISBN-10: 0691029482

ISBN-13: 9780691029481

ISBN-10: 1400812879

ISBN-13: 9781400812875

Solid and evil, fresh and unclean, wealthy and terrible, self and different. the character and serve as of such binary oppositions have lengthy intrigued students in such fields as philosophy, linguistics, classics, and anthropology. From the hole chapters of Genesis, during which God separates day from evening, and Adam and Eve partake of the tree of the data of fine and evil, dyadic pairs proliferate through the Hebrew Bible. during this groundbreaking paintings melding serious exegesis and modern thought, Saul M. Olyan considers the superiority of polarities in biblical discourse and expounds their importance for the social and spiritual associations of historic Israel. Extant biblical narrative and criminal texts exhibit a suite of socially developed and culturally privileged binary oppositions, Olyan argues, which instigate and perpetuate hierarchical social relatives in ritual settings comparable to the sanctuary.Focusing on 4 binary pairs--holy/common, Israelite/alien, clean/unclean, and whole/blemished--Olyan exhibits how those privileged oppositions have been used to limit entry to cultic areas, similar to the temple or the Passover desk. those ritual websites, as a result, turned the first contexts for developing and recreating unequal social kinfolk. Olyan additionally uncovers a development of problem to the confirmed hierarchies by means of nonprivileged teams. Converging with modern problems with strength, marginalization, and privileging, Olyan's painstaking but lucid research abounds with implications for anthropology, classics, severe thought, and feminist stories.