Judaism: Sacred Texts

In the late eighteenth century, German Jews began entering the middle class with remarkable speed. That upward mobility, it has often been said, co...

Solomon Bennett Freehof (1892-1990) was one of America's most distinguished, influential, and beloved rabbis. Ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1...

Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project ...

The Babylonia Talmud is an immense collection of laws, practices, and customs of the Jewish people, edited in its present form in the fifth century...

For many centuries Jews have been renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education. Eventually, prioritizing children ...

Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is wide...

Despite the Talmud being the richest repository of medical remedies in ancient Judaism, this important strain of Jewish thought has been largely ig...

This volume brings together studies by experts in the rabbinic literature of late antiquity and by specialists in the history of the Jews in that p...

A feminist project that privileges the Babylonian Talmudic tractate as culturally significant.   While the use of feminist analysis as a methodolog...

A feminist project that privileges the Babylonian Talmudic tractate as culturally significant.   While the use of feminist analysis as a methodolog...

The volume discusses nudity and clothing in the Hebrew Bible, covering anthropological, theological, archaeology and religious-historical aspects. ...

The rabbinic sages of late antiquity are known for their sophisticated and creative reading of Scripture, but rabbinic literature also includes ela...

Twentieth century Hebrew poetry engages the Bible in an ongoing battle. Modern iconoclastic Hebrew poets fight for their independence from biblical...