Tag: Judaism

Free Download Joseph Scales, "Galilean Spaces of Identity: Judaism and Spatiality in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee "
English | ISBN: 9004692541 | 2024 | 401 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book explores how Judaism shaped the spaces of ancient Galilee, and how in turn, these spaces generated further expressions of Judaism. Evidence is drawn from the beginnings of Hasmonean influence in Galilee, until the outbreak of the Great Revolt.

Free Download Helena Zlotnick, "Dinah’s Daughters: Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0812204018, 0812236440, 0812217977 | EPUB | pages: 264 | 0.4 mb
The status of women in the ancient Judaism of the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic texts has long been a contested issue. What does being a Jewess entail in antiquity? Men in ancient Jewish culture are defined primarily by what duties they are expected to perform, the course of action that they take. The Jewess, in contrast, is bound by stricture.

Free Download Hindy Najman, "Tracing Sapiential Traditions in Ancient Judaism "
English | ISBN: 9004324674 | 2016 | 248 pages | PDF | 1363 KB
This volume is intended to problematize and challenge current conceptions of the category of "Wisdom" and to reconsider the scope, breadth and Nachleben of ancient Jewish sapiential traditions. It considers the formal features and conceptual underpinnings of wisdom throughout the corpus of the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hellenistic Jewish texts, Rabbinic texts, and the Cairo Geniza. It also situates ancient Jewish Wisdom in its Near Eastern context, as well as in the context of Hellenistic conceptions of the Sage.

Free Download Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, "The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism"
English | ISBN: 0827615213 | 2024 | 400 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Natan Fund’s 2024 Natan Prize Winner

Free Download Christoph Böttigheimer, "The Concept of Body in Judaism, Christianity and Islam "
English | ISBN: 3110748177 | 2023 | 185 pages | PDF | 940 KB
This volume of the series "Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses" investigates the roots of the concept of "body" in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Free Download The Blackwell Companion to Judaism By Jacob Neusner, Alan Avery-Peck
2003 | 572 Pages | ISBN: 1577180593 | PDF | 4 MB
This Companion explores the history, doctrines, divisions, and contemporary condition of Judaism. Surveys those issues most relevant to Judaic life today: ethics, feminism, politics, and constructive theologyExplores the definition of Judaism and its formative historyMakes sense of the diverse data of an ancient and enduring faith

Free Download Michael L. Morgan, "Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism"
English | ISBN: 0253014697 | 2014 | 442 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.

Free Download Ophira Gamliel, "Judaism in South India, 849-1489: Relocating Malabar Jewry "
English | ISBN: 1641890673 | 2023 | 202 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Jewish presence in the Malabar Coast of southwestern India is attested since the ninth century in various sources and diverse languages. Malabar Jewry emerged out of the Indian Ocean maritime trade networks that connected people and communities in West and South Asia forging kinship alliances and cross-cultural exchange. This book traces the evolution of Malabar Jewry in the history of contact and exchange that gave rise to Indo-Arab coastal communities in the period between 849 and 1489.

Free Download Adam Sutcliffe, "Judaism and Enlightenment "
English | ISBN: 0521820154 | 2003 | 340 pages | PDF | 18 MB
This major contribution to the history of European ideas investigates the philosophical and political significance of Judaism in the intellectual life of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe. Adam Sutcliffe demonstrates how the enthusiastic fascination with Judaism that was prevalent around 1650 became contemptuous a century later. The intense responses of thinkers like Voltaire to Jewish topics are central to an understanding of the underlying ambiguities of the Enlightenment. The study interests scholars of Jewish history, the Enlightenment, and of the emergence of the modern movement.

Free Download Judaism: A Very Short Introduction By Norman Solomon
1997 | 146 Pages | ISBN: 0192853244 | PDF | 4 MB
An ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life, this book surveys the nature and development of Judaism, as well as outlining the basics of practical Judaism – its festivals, prayers, customs, and various sects. Modern concerns and debates of the Jewish people are also addressed, such as the impact of the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, the status of women, and medical and commercial ethics. This book is aimed at those who want to find out more about a people who are familiar, yet retain a certain mystique.