Judaism: Sacred Texts

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...

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...