Judaism: Sacred Texts

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...

In Enchanted Dulcinea, this English translation of the novel by Mexican author Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Dulcinea travels in a car writing novels in...

This volume offers a new reading of Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, it explores how Maimonides commitment to integrity led him to...

The Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud show a myriad of sorrowful situations in various levels and circumstances and a variety of human beh...

This book analyzes the exceptional normative impact of R. Meir Simcha Hacohens Biblical commentary, Meshekh Hokhmah, and his halakhic commentary, O...

Maimonides was one of the greatest Jewish personalities of the Middle Ages: a halakhist par excellence, a great philosopher, a political leader of ...

The work of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the Neziv, ranks amongst the most widely read rabbinic literature of the nineteenth century. His bread...

Wide-ranging and astutely argued, Talmud and Philosophy examines the intersections, partitions, and mutual illuminations and problematizations of W...

Wide-ranging and astutely argued, Talmud and Philosophy examines the intersections, partitions, and mutual illuminations and problematizations of W...

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

The work of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the Neziv, ranks amongst the most often read rabbinic literature of the nineteenth century. His breadt...

This volume offers a new reading of Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, it explores how Maimonides commitment to integrity led him to...

Practice-oriented educational philosopher Elie Holzer invites readers to grow as teachers, students, or co-learners through attuned learning, a new...

Unraveling the controversies surrounding the Dead Sea ScrollsSince they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls ...

New in paperback, this is a fully illustrated volume on the discovery, meaning and significance of all the Dead Sea Scrolls by acknowledged experts...

This bold new English translation (Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal) of Job by one of the worlds leading biblical scholars will reshape the way we ...

Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomia study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around the world read one page of the Talmud every day for...

A finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Award for scholarship--a broad, systematic account of one of the most original and creative kabbalists...

A fresh interpretation of the final major sections of the Hebrew book of Ezekiel, chapters 38-48 Stephen L. Cook offers an accessible translation a...

The apostle Paul was a Jew. He was born, lived, undertook his apostolic work, and died within the milieu of ancient Judaism. And yet, many readers ...

Publicly or secretly, traditional Jews increasingly doubt the historical reliability of the Torah. Here, Gellman provides an old-fashioned Jewish t...

Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary is one of the great biblical exegeses produced by medieval Jewry. His commentary accompanies almost every versi...

Learning to Read Talmud is the first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of studies con...

Groundbreaking interpretations of classical rabbinic texts lead the reader through an exploration of attuned learning an emerging paradigm of mindf...