Judaism: Sacred Texts

Studying the many ideas about how giving charity atones for sin and other rewards in late antique rabbinic literature, this volume contains many, v...

The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with...

Addressed to Jews and non-Jews alike, though aware that these two reader groups were likelyn to approach the book with very different presuppositio...

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein continues his grand exploration of the ancient rabbinic tradition of the Talmudic sages, offering deep and complex analysis o...

Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, undertaken by rabbinic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian scholars in late ant...

If you think the Bible is irrelevant, irrational, or even, at times, immoraland you have an open mindThe Rational Bible will change your mind and i...

The volume consists of 21 essays from an international group of scholars. The volume is broken into two parts: Reading Samuel with the Hebrew Bible...

Focusing on travel narratives as a setting for spelling out both cultural exchanges and identity building, the present volume maps a variety of str...

Alan Mintz (19472017) was a singular figure in the American Jewish literary landscape. In addition to publishing six authoritative books and numero...