Judaism

An essential introduction to Josephuss momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against ...

Rabba, Maharat, Rabbanit, Rebbetzin: Women with Leadership Authority According to Halachah examines in detail the legitimacy for feminine leadershi...

Moses Maimonides''s Guide of the Perplexed is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages....

As featured on the cover of Tikkun magazine How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture?  Dra...

A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and ...

Stories of rape, murder, adultery, and conquest raise crucial issues in the Hebrew Bible, and their interpretation helps societies form their relig...

An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe R...

From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson--revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe--built the Lubavitcher m...

Complementing other studies on judicial discourse, this book investigates previously unexplored areas, focusing on the realisation of Concession in...

The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part comm...

The life and times of a treasured book read by generations of Jewish families at the seder tableEvery year at Passover, Jews around the world gathe...

Understanding the sacred text has been a wonderful yet elusive challenge through the ages. This book is a reading of the Bible, accessible to reade...

The legendary Akiva ben Yosef has fascinated Jews for centuries. Arguably the most important of the Tannaim, or early Jewish sages, Akiva lived dur...