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Free Download Urban Origins of American Judaism (George H. Shriver Lecture Series in Religion in American History) by Deborah Dash Moore
English | October 15, 2014 | ISBN: 0820346829, 0820350575 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 7.6 MB
The urban origins of American Judaism began with daily experiences of Jews, their responses to opportunities for social and physical mobility as well as constraints of discrimination and prejudice. Deborah Dash Moore explores Jewish participation in American cities and considers the implications of urban living for American Jews across three centuries. Looking at synagogues, streets, and snapshots, she contends that key features of American Judaism can be understood as an imaginative product grounded in urban potentials.

Free Download Christopher Partridge, "A Brief Introduction to Judaism "
English | ISBN: 1506450407 | 2018 | 140 pages | EPUB
| 13 MB

Free Download Jonathan D. Sarna, "American Judaism: A History"
English | 2005 | pages: 513 | ISBN: 0300109768 | PDF | 2,5 mb
This magisterial work chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America. Tracing American Judaism from its origins in the colonial era through the present day, Jonathan Sarna explores the ways in which Judaism adapted in this new context. How did American culture―predominantly Protestant and overwhelmingly capitalist―affect Jewish religion and culture? And how did American Jews shape their own communities and faith in the new world?

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.