Judaism

Historians have largely tended to regard Polish Jewish history and German Jewish history, from the Middle Ages to the present, as playing out solel...

Every work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. Whiteheads famous dictum that the entire Euro...

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 ...

The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering ...

While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public ...

This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These...

This volume presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israels society, economy, religion, language, c...

Holocaust vs. Popular Culture debates and deconstructs the binary responses to the representation of the Holocaust in European and non-European for...

This book addresses central theological issues and biblical narratives in terms of a bold thesis regarding relations between God and humans: that t...

The volume discusses nudity and clothing in the Hebrew Bible, covering anthropological, theological, archaeology and religious-historical aspects. ...

The rabbinic sages of late antiquity are known for their sophisticated and creative reading of Scripture, but rabbinic literature also includes ela...

A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects e...

A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects e...

William Horbury considers the issue of messianism as it arises in Jewish and Christian tradition. Whilst Horburys primary focus is the Herodian per...

This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These...

Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential authors in contemporary humanities, exerting a deep fascination for students and garnering scholarly...

Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so de...

This volume contains seven Aramaic manuscripts of a Jewish pseudepigraphic tradition from the Second Temple period that ascribes to Enoch, the bibl...

In 1732, Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published his Speculum Religionis Judaicæ (Mirror of the Jewish Religion), a descr...