Judaism: Sacred Texts

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 gospel story begins in Torah. What culminates at Golgotha starts with the rebellion in the garden. The Torah's story can be framed as a questio...

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

In this highly original study, David Gillis demonstrates that the Mishneh torah, Maimonides code of Jewish law, has the structure of a microcosm. T...

This indispensable monograph synthesizes current debates and offers a new historical and literary analysis of the book of Deuteronomy  In this exci...

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

Christianity is based on the texts that make up the New Testament, but it has its roots in the books of the Jewish Old Testament which are also inc...

The book of Isaiah is one of the longest and strangest books of the Hebrew Bible, composed over several centuries and traversing the catastrophe th...

A magisterial, modern reading of the deepest mysteries in the Kabbalistic tradition. Seekers of the Face opens the profound treasure house at the h...

The Invention of Hebrew is the first book to approach the Bible in light of recent epigraphic discoveries on the extreme antiquity of the alphabet ...

Literary Allusions in Esther: A Study on the Convergence of Intertexts and Narrative examines the robust intertextual nature of MT Esther. Its text...

The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this bo...

One of the most basic questions for any legal system is that of methodology: how one interprets, analyzes, weighs, and applies a mass of often comp...

This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of striking parallels and connections be...

Ilanotparchment sheets presenting the kabbalistic tree of lifehave been at the center of Jewish mystical practice for the past seven hundred years....

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

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

A political crisis erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics, and a Jewish insider goes rogue, determined to save her people at all cost...

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

First published in 2004, The Jewish Study Bible is a landmark, one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bibl...

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