Recovering Judaism: (Augsburg Fortress Publishers) Publisher's Comments: Judaism today is too often thought to represent a religious backwater, a highly particularistic, religion with its own esoteric tales and traditions, practices and norms. First Christians, then Jews themselves, have succumbed to this characterization, resul... Details...

Reimagining the Bible The Storytelling of the Rabbis: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This collection is a unique contribution to Jewish studies by one of its leading scholars. Re-imagining the Bible presents a dozen essays from Howard Schwartz's published work. Some of them appeared as introductions to his books; others are taken from journ... Details...

Reimagining the Bible The Storytelling of the Rabbis: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This collection is a unique contribution to Jewish studies by one of its leading scholars. Re-imagining the Bible presents a dozen essays from Howard Schwartz's published work. Some of them appeared as introductions to his books; others are taken from journ... Details...

Religion & Power: Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greek East: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focuses on the eastern "Greek" provinces in the first and second centuries A.D.--the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and... Details...

Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The existence of suffering poses an obvious problem for the monotheistic religions. Why does an all-powerful, benevolent God allow humans to suffer? And given that God does, what is the appropriate human response? In modern times Jewish theologians in part... Details...

Ritual and Morality The Ritual Purity System and its Place in Judaism: (Cambridge University Press) TPublisher's Comments: The book explains clearly the ritual purity system of the Hebrew Bible. Maccoby focuses on the various human conditions (corpse impurity, menstruation, childbirth, sexual intercourse, and certain diseases), which are not sinful, but which disqualify Israel... Details...

Stone Edition Chumash - Full Size: (Artscroll Mesorah) Publisher's Comments: A Classic in its own time… The entire Chumash, newly reset, in one beautiful volume with a new, contemporary English translation of the Torah, faithful to Rashi and the classic Rabbinic commentators, and an anthologized commentary by a team of scholars, u... Details...

Studies on the Testament of Job: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: Bringing together as it does papers delivered at the 1986 and 1987 meetings of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas Pseudepigrapha Seminar, this collection takes as its theme the Testament of Job. For much of the modern period the Testament of Job has bee... Details...

Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: (Jewish Publication Society) Publisher's Comments: Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike. Details...

Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: (Jewish Publication Society) Publisher's Comments: Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike. Details...