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Living Judaism is an engaging overview of the Jewish faith - a perfect introduction for people with little knowledge of Jewish history, tradition, or practice and an equally thought-provoking guide for those already steeped in Jewish life. Living Judaism covers the whole spectrum of Jewish life: Jewish beliefs, the Jewish people, Jewish literature, Jewish days and holidays, Jewish worship, Jewish living, the Jewish life cycle, and the Jewish land....

"An essential introduction to the philosophy and practice of the mystical traditions of Judaism"--Cover.

This extensive series explores themes including the seeds of violence in Biblical interpretation, human sacrifice in the Old Testament, violent religious metaphors, the violent messiah, linguistic and psychoanalytic approaches to religious themes, the jihad in context and in the Qur'an, fundamentalism and violence, and the psychoreligious roots of violence.

"Judaism is one of the first recorded monotheistic religions and one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced today. Like many other cultural institutions, it has rarely remained static - instead, it continually investigates and questions itself, metamorphosing in relation to the world. Although its influences can be seen in both Christianity and Islam, many of its beliefs, traditions, and practices are unknown. This second editon of Historical...

A guide to secondary material (books and articles) in the English language, dealing with a wide range of topics in the discipline of Jewish Studies. The guide is organized alphabetically by subject; each entry presents a list of works and an abstract for each item listed. See the entries: Anti-Judaism: Late Antiquity (25-27); Anti-Judaism: Middle Ages (27-29); Antisemitism (29-30); Black-Jewish Relations in the United States (89-90); Christian-Jewish...

"Only one of the world's mythologies has remained essentially unexplored - the mythology of Judaism. As Howard Schwartz reveals in Tree of Souls, the first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, this mythical tradition is as rich and as fascinating as any in the world." "Drawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore collected in the modern era, Schwartz...

Religious historian Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, life, and afterlife of history's most powerful book. Armstrong analyzes the social and political situation in which oral history turned into written scripture, how this all-pervasive scripture was collected into one work, and how it became accepted as Christianity's sacred text. She explores how "as the pragmatic scientific ethos of modernity took hold, scripture was read for the information...

Campbell explores the common symbols of the Western religions, holding them to the light and reinterpreting them in the context of his remarkable knowledge of world mythology.

"What is Jewish mysticism? This fascinating anthology provides a lucid and detailed survey of the treasures of the Jewish mystical tradition." "Beginning with an illuminating introduction to the history of Jewish mysticism, Professor Cohn-Sherbok goes on to trace the major developments in mystical reflection from the early rabbinic period to modern times. Here he presents a chronological anthology of mystical passages, each prefaced with introductory...