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  • Diversity and Rabbinization

    Jewish Texts and Societies between 400 and 1000 CE

    by Gavin McDowell, Ron Naiweld, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra ...
    Series Book 8 - Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Series
    This volume contains Hebrew and Syriac text. Please, check that your e-reader supports texts set in left-to-right direction before purchasing the epub and azw3 editions of the book.This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. ... Read more

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  • Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

    by Norman Golb ...
    Dr. Norman Golb's classic study on the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online.Since their earliest discovery in 1947, the Scrolls have been the object of fascination and extreme controversy.Challenging traditional dogma, Golb has been the leading proponent of the view that the Scrolls cannot be the work of a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect, as various earlier scholars had ... Read more

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  • The "Dead Sea Scrolls"

    A Biography

    by John J. Collins ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and more controversy--than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the time of Jesus, and they continue to inspire veneration and conspiracy theories to this day. John Collins tells ... Read more

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  • A History of Judaism

    by Martin Goodman ...
    A sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millenniaJudaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia. A History of Judaism provides the first truly comprehensive look in one volume at how this great religion came to be, how it ... Read more

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  • Christians and Images: Early Christian Attitudes toward Images

    by Steven Bigham ...
    This book aims at combating the Hostility Theory which claims that the Christians in the pagan Roman Empire had no images and rejected them as idolatrous. Did the early Christians, during the first three centuries, 33–313, have images in their churches or places of worship and homes? If they did not, was that because they thought that all images were idols or close to being idols? Did they think ... Read more

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  • Becoming the People of the Talmud

    Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures

    by Talya Fishman ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    In Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. Although the Talmud's preeminence in Jewish study and its determining role in Jewish practice are generally taken for granted, Fishman contends that these roles were not solidified until the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. The ... Read more

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  • Border Lines

    The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity

    by Daniel Boyarin ...
    Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
    The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even before its subsequent division, certain beliefs and practices of this composite would have been ... Read more

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  • The World of Jesus and the Early Church

    Identity and Interpretation in the Early Communities of Faith

    Edited by Craig A. Evans ...
    How do religious texts impact the way communities of faith understand themselves? In The World of Jesus and the Early Church: Identity and Interpretation in Early Communities of Faith Craig Evans leads an interdisciplinary team of scholars to discover and explain how the dynamic relationship between text and community enabled ancient Christian and Jewish communities to define themselves. To this ... Read more

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  • Crucible of Faith

    The Ancient Revolution That Made Our Modern Religious World

    by Philip Jenkins ...
    One of America's foremost scholars of religion examines the tumultuous era that gave birth to the modern Judeo-Christian traditionIn The Crucible of Faith, Philip Jenkins argues that much of the Judeo-Christian tradition we know today was born between 250-50 BCE, during a turbulent "Crucible Era." It was during these years that Judaism grappled with Hellenizing forces and produced new religious ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Cultures of the Jews

    A New History (National Jewish Book Award)

    Edited by David Biale ...
    WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUTWho are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors?To address these and similar questions, twenty ... Read more

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  • The Bible in Arabic

    The Scriptures of the "People of the Book" in the Language of Islam

    by Sidney H. Griffith ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however, these translations remained largely neglected by Biblical scholars and historians. In telling the story of the Bible in Arabic, this book casts light on a crucial transition in the cultural and religious life of ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations

    by Edward Kessler ...
    Series series Introduction to Religion
    Relations between Christians and Jews over the past two thousand years have been characterised to a great extent by mutual distrust and by Christian discrimination and violence against Jews. In recent decades, however, a new spirit of dialogue has been emerging, beginning with an awakening among Christians of the Jewish origins of Christianity, and encouraging scholars of both traditions to work ... Read more

    $39.39 USD