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“anson h laytner”

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  • Arguing with God

    A Jewish Tradition

    by Anson H. Laytner ...
    As an old proverb puts it, 'Two Jews, three opinions.' In the long, rich, tumultuous history of the Jewish people, this characteristic contentiousness has often been extended even unto Heaven. Arguing with God is a highly original and utterly absorbing study that skates along the edge of this theological thin ice_at times verging dangerously close to blasphemy_yet also a source of some of the most ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng

    A Millennium of Adaptation and Endurance

    by Anson H. Laytner, Jordan Paper, Alex Bender, Moshe Yehuda Bernstein, Irene Eber, Mathew A. Eckstein, Xianyi Kong, Donald Daniel Leslie, Andrew H. Plaks0, Mohammed Turki al-Sudairi1, Nigel Thomas2, Erik Zürcher3 ...
    This scholarly collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. These essays, written by a diverse, international team of contributors, explore the culture and history of this thousand-year-old Jewish community, whose synthesis of Chinese and Jewish cultures helped guarantee its survival. Part I of this study analyzes the origin and ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Forgotten Commandment

    by Anson Hugh Laytner ...
    Locked in a vacuum-sealed glass tube, stowed away for centuries in the Vatican Secret Archives, is a manuscript appearing to be an animal rights fable but containing a dire prophetic message about humanity's destruction of the world's environment. Will it help humans to finally wake up and save life on the earth? The Forgotten Commandment is a work of historical eco-fiction. It braids together a ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Choosing Life after Tragedy

    An Experience-Based Theological Journey

    by Anson Hugh Laytner ...
    A wave of disease and death in his immediate family led Rabbi Anson Laytner to question much of what he had learned about the meaning of suffering, the value of petitionary prayer, and the role of God in human life. As he struggled to deal with his grief and doubts, he gradually found a way forward. His spiritual healing process took him from intense grief to a renewed appreciation of life--and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mystery of Suffering and the Meaning of God

    Autobiographical and Theological Reflections

    by Anson Hugh Laytner ...
    The Mystery of Suffering and the Meaning of God is a book written by a skeptical but spiritual person for people who struggle with the subjects of God, divine providence, prayer, and related issues; people who are looking for honest and thoughtful--and sometimes humorous--theological reflections, but no easy answers. A work of creative theology fifteen years in the making, The Mystery of Suffering ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Indestructible Jews

    by Max I. Dimont ...
    From the author of Jews, God, and History, this comprehensive history of the Jewish people is "an epic drama, searching and nobly conceived" ( Publishers Weekly).A compelling and readable account of the four thousand year history of a people that spans the globe and transcends the ages. From the ancient and simple faith of a small tribe to a global religion with adherents in every nation, the path ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • A History of the Jews

    The Indestructible Jews, The Jews in America, and Appointment in Jerusalem

    by Max I. Dimont ...
    Three books on Jewish heritage from the author of Jews, God, and History, "the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language" ( Los Angeles Times).With over a million and a half copies sold, Jews, God and History introduced readers to "the fascinating reasoning" of acclaimed scholar Max I. Dimont's "bright and unorthodox mind" ( San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle). In ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Problem of God

    Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

    by Mark Clark ...
    The Problem of God explores answers to the most difficult questions raised against Christianity.A skeptic who became a Christian and then a pastor, author Mark Clark grew up in an atheistic home. After his father's death, he began a skeptical search for truth through the fields of science, philosophy, and history, eventually finding answers in the last place he expected: Christianity.In a winsome, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Story of the Jews Volume Two

    Belonging: 1492-1900

    by Simon Schama ...
    Series Book 2 - Story of the Jews
    In the second volume of this magnificently illustrated cultural history, the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of nineteenth century.A sweeping work of narrative history, volume two of this epic incorporates the stories of many who seldom figure in Jewish histories: not just the rabbis and the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Story of the Jewish People

    Letters to Auntie Fori

    by Martin Gilbert ...
    A history of Judaism written in letters from historian Martin Gilbert to his acquaintance in India, who wants to learn more about her ancestry.At her ninetieth birthday celebration in New Delhi, "Auntie Fori" revealed to her longtime acquaintance, Sir Martin Gilbert, that she was not of Indian birth but actually Hungarian—and Jewish. She did not know what this Jewish identity involved, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • With

    Reimagining the Way You Relate to God

    by Skye Jethani ...
    Stop Living Your Life Under, Over, From and For God and Start Living in Communion With Him.Endorsements:If we've grown weary of Christianity, if we find most any local church uninspiring, maybe the problem lies not in the Christian faith or these faithful bodies, but in our own disgruntled hearts. In With, Syke Jethani tenderly unmasks the clichéd posturing that too often masquerades as genuine ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Jews, God, and History

    by Max I. Dimont ...
    A rich study of Jews and Jewish history that offers a unique look at a people who have persevered through unspeakable adversity and have contributed incredible advancements to the world we know today.How have the Jews survived through so many millennia while other civilizations have declined and perished? What qualities mark the culture that has produced Moses, Christ, Spinoza, Marx, Freud, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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