Judaism: Sacred Texts

An examination of MT Esthers relationship to the Joseph story, this study employs recent advances in author-oriented biblical intertextuality to ad...

From Tiberias With Love is a journey to rediscovering the magic and mystery, the intimacy and depth of a lost moment in the history of a remarkably...

This book follows the origins of the Kedushta, a sequence of poems that leads up to the epitome of Jewish prayer, the Kedusha or Sanctus. It tracks...

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls more than sixty years ago has revealed a wealth of literary compositions which rework the Hebrew Bible in var...

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls more than sixty years ago has revealed a wealth of literary compositions which rework the Hebrew Bible in var...

This volume contains fifteen articles, many in Hebrew, by leading scholars. The articles cover a broad range of subjects, from an analysis of bibli...

The impact of earlier works to the literature of early Judaism is an intensively researched topic in contemporary scholarship. This volume is based...

The present volume honours Rabbi Professor Nehemia Polen, one of those rare scholars whose religious teachings, spiritual writings, and academic sc...

The essays in this volume address the conundrum of how Jewish believers in the divine character of the Sinaitic revelation confront the essential q...

The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part comm...

Among the most enigmatic passages in the Bible are those featuring God's election of some and rejection of others. While many interpreters appeal t...

In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of interest among both secular and religious Israelis in Talmudic stories. This growing fascination ...

Thanks to an excessive reliance on long-standing Western interpretations, American Christians rarely preach and teach Daniel. When they do, the boo...

Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maim...

The study of classical Jewish texts is flourishing in day schools and adult education, synagogues and summer camps, universities and yeshivot. But ...

The essays in this volume address the conundrum of how Jewish believers in the divine character of the Sinaitic revelation confront the essential q...

Employing text critical methods, Jonathan S. Milgram argues that, in the absence of the hermeneutic underpinnings for tannaitic innovations, the in...