Judaism: Sacred Texts

When Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law) reached Lunel, France, a group of scholars composed twenty-four objections to his positions. Su...

When Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law) reached Lunel, France, a group of scholars composed twenty-four objections to his positions. Su...

An indispensable resource for everyone who cares about the Jewish future.Young people need to be included in the struggle for meaning, for the righ...

The Psalms have resulted in controversies between Jews and Christians over the centuries and it is only from the mid twentieth century onwards that...

A comprehensive and accessible guide to the Hebrew BibleThis book brings together some of the world's most exciting scholars from across a variety ...

The Torah Unabridged is a detailed examination of legal reasoning in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the exegetical operations by which biblical laws...

Ilanot—parchment sheets presenting the kabbalistic “tree of life”—have been at the center of Jewish mystical practice for the past seven hundred ye...

This collection of leading scholars presents reflections on both wisdom as a general concept throughout history and cultures, as well as the contes...

The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha addresses the Old Testament Apocrypha, known to be important early Jewish texts that have become deutero-canon...

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810) is widely considered to be one of the foremost visionary storytellers of the Hasidic movement. The great-gran...

“This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western cu...

This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory in relation to culin...

This workbook accompanies Gary Edward Schnittjer's Torah Story. Following the textbook's structure, it offers chapter-by-chapter guided exercises d...

Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into...