Judaism

The differing beliefs that emerged between Christianity and Judaism, especially in the first two centuries AD, were mainly caused by the introducti...

Traces the roots of ideologies and outlooks that shape Jewish life in Israel and the United States today.Zionism and the Melting Pot pivots away fr...

The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to S...

The book refers to universal eschatology contained in the Letters to the Thessalonians (1 Thess 4, 13-5, 11; 2 Thess 2, 1-12). The whole material i...

Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700,000 adherents, primarily in the U....

The love of books in the Jewish tradition extends back over many centuries, and the ways of interpreting those books are as myriad as the tradition...

A revelatory account of a spiritual leader who dared to assert the value of rabbinic doubt in the face of messianic certaintyIn 1665, Sabbetai Zevi...

In The Power of Dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, scholar and activist Nava Sonnenschein shares a collection of twenty-five powerful inte...

Volume 10 of Princeton Oriental Texts. Originally published in 1943. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to a...

Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influ...

How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows ...

A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monot...

The Miriam Tradition works from the premise that religious values form in and through movement, with ritual and dance developing patterns for enact...

How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everythingTypically translated as "Jewish law," halakh...

Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esoteric writings of late antiq...

Outside of the Bible, all of the known Near Eastern law collections were produced in the third to second millennia BCE, in cuneiform on clay tablet...

This is a book about women in survival communities and the ways that survival and theology are used to shut down women's voices. Mariam Youssef exa...

In Contested Masculinities, the author argues for the importance of critical consciousness, and attentiveness to the interplay of the biblical text...

Ze’ev Jawitz (1847-1924) was one of the foremost intellectuals of the First Aliyah and a leader of the religious faction within the Hibbat Zion mov...