Judaism: Theology

Examines the meaning of Jewish politics in Israel In one of the first books to ask head-on what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state, Yaacov Ya...

This edited collection offers new perspectives on perceived paradoxes in Israels religious heritage, with a particular focus on the Garden of Eden ...

This book explores the early Jewish understanding of divine knowledge as divine presence, which is embodied in major biblical exemplars, such as Ad...

This book provides a new framework for conducting qualitative research into Asylum Seeking Refugees based on Emmanuel Levinas ethic of the face-to-...

The Life of the Soul surveys the wide-ranging theories Jewish mystics have offered to the vexing question what precisely transpires after we die? ...

In the majority of canonical lists, the Psalms and the book of Job sit next to one another, perhaps due to their size. They share a theme, lament, ...

Every work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. Whiteheads famous dictum that the entire Euro...

This book goes on a journey into alternative retellings of Jewish history in order to discover its patterns, which might give us clues about the fu...

The Talmud's Red Fence explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighboring Sasanian religious texts w...

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