Judaism

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...