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  • What Animals Teach Us About Families

    Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature

    by Beth A. Berkowitz ...
    Reading the Bible and rabbinic literature to reimagine the bonds between animals.Moving beyond debates about the ethics of animal consumption to focus on animals' intimate lives, Beth A. Berkowitz examines the contribution of religious traditions and sacred texts to contemporary conversations about animals. Reading the four "animal family" laws of the Bible alongside their rabbinic interpretations ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud

    by Beth A. Berkowitz ...
    Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud selects key themes in animal studies - animal intelligence, morality, sexuality, suffering, danger, personhood - and explores their development in the Babylonian Talmud. Beth A. Berkowitz demonstrates that distinctive features of the Talmud - the new literary genre, the convergence of Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian cultures, the Talmud's remove ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Defining Jewish Difference

    From Antiquity to the Present

    by Beth A. Berkowitz ...
    This book traces the interpretive career of Leviticus 18:3, a verse that forbids Israel from imitating its neighbors. Beth A. Berkowitz shows that ancient, medieval and modern exegesis of this verse provides an essential backdrop for today's conversations about Jewish assimilation and minority identity more generally. The story of Jewishness that this book tells may surprise many modern readers ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Execution and Invention

    Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures

    by Beth A. Berkowitz ...
    The death penalty in classical Judaism has been a highly politicized subject in modern scholarship. Enlightenment attacks on the Talmud's legitimacy led scholars to use the Talmud's criminal law as evidence for its elevated morals. But even more pressing was the need to prove Jews' innocence of the charge of killing Christ. The reconstruction of a just Jewish death penalty was a defense against ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Words Hurt

    Discourse and Violence in the History of Religion

    by Jennifer W. Knust, Todd S. Berzon, Elizabeth A. Castelli, Beth A. Berkowitz, Krista Dalton, Jennifer A. Glancy, Janet R. Jakobsen, Karen L. King, Laura Nasrallah0, Erin Runions1, Carrie Schroeder2, Randall Styers3, Judith Weisenfeld4 ...
    Investigates how discourse spills from language to action, generating, obfuscating, and perpetuating violence while also offering the words, principles, and practices that may interrupt itWe are continually catching up with and being caught by words, especially words that hurt. These collected essays probe the interaction of violence and words across time, place, and circumstance. Often cited as ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Religious Studies and Rabbinics

    A Conversation

    Edited by Elizabeth Alexander, Beth Berkowitz ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    Religious Studies and Rabbinics have overlapping yet distinct interests, subject matter, and methods. Religious Studies is committed to the study of religion writ large. It develops theories and methods intended to apply across religious traditions. Rabbinics, by contrast, is dedicated to a defined set of texts produced by the rabbinic movement of late antiquity.Religious Studies and Rabbinics ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Christian Worldview

    A Student's Guide

    by Philip Graham Ryken, David S. Dockery ...
    Series series Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition
    Everything we do, say, and think reflects our fundamental worldview. Whether we realize it or not, basic beliefs about God, man, good and evil, history, and the future inevitably shape how we view and interact with the world. In this accessible student's guide, Phil Ryken, author and current president of Wheaton College, explains the distinguishing marks of a distinctly Christian worldview ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Can We Still Believe the Bible?

    An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions

    by Craig Blomberg ...
    Christianity Today Book Award WinnerChallenges to the reliability of Scripture are perennial and have frequently been addressed. However, some of these challenges are noticeably more common today, and the topic is currently of particular interest among evangelicals.In this volume, highly regarded biblical scholar Craig Blomberg offers an accessible and nuanced argument for the Bible's reliability ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Understanding Spiritual Warfare

    Four Views

    Edited by James K. Beilby, Paul Rhodes Eddy ...
    The topic of spiritual warfare is an issue of ongoing interest in a number of sectors of the contemporary church. This four-view work brings together leading theologians and ministry leaders to present major views on spiritual warfare in dialogical fashion--all authors present their views and then respond to each of the other views. Contributors include:• Walter Wink with Gareth Higgins and ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Hebrew Bible

    New Insights and Scholarship

    Edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn ...
    Series Book 4 - Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century
    In April of 2001, the headline in the Los Angeles Times read, “Doubting the Story of the Exodus.” It covered a sermon that had been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation over the holiday of Passover. In it, he said, “The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story of the exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World

    by Jordan D. Rosenblum ...
    In The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World Jordan D. Rosenblum explores how cultures critique and defend their religious food practices. In particular he focuses on how ancient Jews defended the kosher laws, or kashrut, and how ancient Greeks, Romans, and early Christians critiqued these practices. As the kosher laws are first encountered in the Hebrew Bible, this study is rooted in ancient ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Luke 1–9

    by Barbara E. Reid OP, Shelly Matthews, Amy-Jill Levine ...
    Series Book 43 - Wisdom Commentary Series
    Because there are more women in the Gospel of Luke than in any other gospel, feminists have given it much attention. In this commentary, Shelly Matthews and Barbara Reid show that feminist analysis demands much more than counting the number of female characters. Feminist biblical interpretation examines how the female characters function in the narrative and also scrutinizes the workings of power ... Read more

    $32.39 USD