Judaism

This book explores the causes, progression and consequences of the extraordinary spread of anti-Jewish violence and mass conversion across five sep...

This book explores the history of the Israeli Socialist Organization Matzpen (compass) that splintered off from the Communist Party of Israel in ...

This innovative book applies findings from the field of cognitive linguistics to the study of emotions in the Hebrew Bible. The book draws on the p...

The definitive biography of Israel's founder by one of Israel's most celebrated historians. As the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion long ago sec...

This volume provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought...

Studying the many ideas about how giving charity atones for sin and other rewards in late antique rabbinic literature, this volume contains many, v...

The incongruence if not antagonism between modern liberalism and the Jewish sense of the world has been most notably articulated by Lionel Trilling...

Religious Studies and Rabbinics have overlapping yet distinct interests, subject matter, and methods. Religious Studies is committed to the study o...

The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with...

This book brings together a collection of 16 essays that explore Jewish communities in North Africa, Turkey and Iraq. The discussions are located p...

Addressed to Jews and non-Jews alike, though aware that these two reader groups were likelyn to approach the book with very different presuppositio...

The present publication is the first that has attempted to portray the separate and progressive history of the Jews in the different countries whic...

Exploring a contemporary Judaism rich with the textures of family, memory, and fellowship, Jodi Eichler-Levine takes readers inside a flourishing A...