Judaism: Sacred Texts

Der Jalkut Schimoni ist ein Sammelwerk rabbinischer Auslegungen zur gesamten hebräischen Bibel. Unerforscht ist, nach welchen Kriterien die Auslegu...

Steve D. Fraade offers a new translation, with notes, and detailed commentary to the Dead Sea Scroll most commonly called the Damascus Document, ba...

The Babylonian Talmud is a product of late antique rabbinical discourse and debate. It is an immense, complex, multi-volume work divided by topics ...

A trial lawyer by trade, a Christian by heartauthor Mark Lanier has trained in biblical languages and devoted his life to studying and living the B...

What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancien...

The volume focuses on variants between the Masoretic Text and the Samaritan Pentateuch promptedby graphic similarities between letters. As a phenom...

The crowning work of medieval Kabbalah, the Zohar is unlike any other work in the Jewish canon. Written in Aramaic, the Zohar contains complex myst...

This book invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis, from the creation of the world...

The Hebrew Torah was translated into Greek in Alexandria by Jewish scholars in the third century BCE, and other 'biblical' books followed to form t...

In Proverbs, wisdom is personified as a woman who is with God at the creation of the world, delighting in what God has made. In Job, God appears in...