Judaism

The diaspora of Portuguese Jews and New Christians, known as Gente da NaÇÃo (People of the Nation), is considered the largest European diaspora of ...

Most people, when thinking about Jews, consider only two categories: the Ashkenazim of European origin, and the Sephardim (often being lumped toget...

Winner of the 2020 Biblical Foundations Book Award, Reference The T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism provides a comprehensive ref...

The T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism provides a comprehensive reference resource of over 600 scholarly articles aimed at scholar...

The introduction will offer some thoughts on each of the four areas covered by the essays and draw some broad conclusions. Studies of the history o...

This volume approaches the topic of mobility in Southeast Europe by offering the first detailed historical study of the land route connecting Istan...

Jews and Muslims in South Asia examines how Jews and Muslims relate to each other in a place where, in contrast to Europe, their perceived attitude...

In comparison to Mark and Luke, the First Gospel contains a striking preponderance of economic language in passages dealing with sin, righteousness...

Metaphors are a vital linguistic component of religious speech and serve as a cultural indicator of how groups understand themselves and the world....

The Letter of Aristeas has been an object modern scholarly interest since the seventeenth century. It is best known for containing the earliest ver...

Aurora Levins Morales's poetry radiates wisdom, warmth, and fortitude. A prophetic, life-centered guide for times of tumult and struggle.Arielle An...

Michael H. Floyd explores how the woe-speeches in Habakkuk 2:6-20 are related in form and content to the message revealed to the prophet in Hab 2:1...

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of...

This book follows Chagalls life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being. It takes the reader through t...

The Hebrew Bible is the main legislative and literary influence on European Poor Law and on literature on poverty and the poor. No extant literatur...

As the fragile window of personal witness to the events of the Holocaust closes, Moment of Witness provides the script for a powerful commemoration...

This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective. In this context, it offers ...

Published in 1908, this book details the development and establishment of Judaism and Jewish culture in contrast to the spread and presence of the ...

Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500, focuses on the unique ways that natural materials carry the spiri...

Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible looks at some of the Bibles most hostile and violent anti-foreigner texts and raises critical quest...

During Israel's military operation in Gaza in the summer of 2014 the commanding officer of the Givati infantry brigade, Colonel Ofer Vinter, called...

The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influentialand controversialrabbis in modern Judaism  Accessible, informed, and...