Jacob Taubes (1923-87) was one of the most important Jewish thinkers of the 20th-century, but until recently there has b......more

This book provides the first critical edition of an unpublished work by Elijah Del Medigo (c. 1455-c. 1493), which has s......more

From the Heart brings together a rich selection of articles by Rob Parsons, one the UK’s best-loved Christian authors. M......more

The Jewish Publication Society’s highly acclaimed Bible Commentary series provides the Hebrew text of the Bible, the JPS......more

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The JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH Revised Edition renews and revises the iconic Jewish Publication Society Bible translation......more

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The traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam place significant emphasis on the role of emotions. The key words of ......more

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring How has Judaism changed since the days of the Bible? What sects an......more

From author of Sontag Benjamin Moser comes a deeply researched history of the Jewish anti-Zionists from the nineteenth c......more

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In this pioneering book for believers, nonbelievers, and anyone curious about the supernatural, renowned exorcist Father......more

What is Shinto all about? What is its relevance to life in the 21st century? This new illustrated guide has all the answ......more

In the Image sets Jewish philosophy and contemporary aesthetics and art in conversation with Talmudic texts. Pulling con......more

The demons we have left behind in old myths might be back in new technologies. What if demons aren’t mythological beings......more

Explores how Jews and non-Jews come to learn about Jews and Judaism through leisure-time entertainment Judaism Mediated ......more

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Rediscover the radical vision of an ancient text. For too long, conservative or literalist voices have used the Bible to......more

Emotions and emotional life have come to assume an important place in the study of religion and the humanities, but litt......more

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Gentile Foods Bans: Halakhah and the Fear of Intermarriage challenges long-standing rabbinic and scholarly assumptions a......more

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Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, undertaken by rabbinic, Graeco-Roman, and Chr......more

The Book of Joshua presents many interpretive challenges. These include its depiction of warfare violence, its engagemen......more

Recent scholarship has focused on John’s relationship to Judaism, his intertextual method, and his portrayal of John the......more

This book investigates the biblical attitudes towards the use of mercenaries in ancient Judah. Although mercenaries are ......more

The many and varied manifestations of violence that permeate the Book of Psalms can be off-putting for modern audiences.......more

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on......more

Why did Jews become devoted Democrats, and why did the Democrats turn on them? For the past 100 years, Jews have famousl......more

The inspiring true story of a nice Jewish boy who left the Church of Scientology to become the lovely lady she is today ......more

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God and the First Families offers a novel exploration of God’s role as a parent in the book of Genesis. Compellingly, au......more

Taking an innovative approach to the study of religious literature and literary modernity, this book examines an overloo......more

Andrew D. Knight-Messenger offers a fresh reassessment of a long-neglected genre within ancient Jewish literature in thi......more

The theme of the twelve tribes of Israel is one of the key points for observing the continuity and discontinuity between......more

This book explores the beliefs and practices of Judaism as a lived religion in the United Kingdom and addresses issues o......more

The Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, stands as one of the central pillars of Jewish intellectual, cultural, and religious li......more

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This is the untold story of the rediscovery of the ancient City of David in Jerusal......more

The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judai......more

A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought. Written in Arabic and completed arou......more

Why does it sometimes feel like God is distant--even when we’re doing "all the right things"? Could it be that modern fa......more

The intertwining story of a noted anti-Nazi artist and the former rabbi who revived his reputation. During World War II,......more

Walk your way through Jewish history, life, and culture--from Abraham to today Jewish History For Dummies provides unbia......more

This volume utilizes Catherine Bell’s ritual theory to shed new light on the many rituals reflected in ancient Mediterra......more

In the nineteenth century, a number of Zoroastrians emigrated from Iran to India. The subsequent importance of the cultu......more

A Jewish priest, a freedom fighter, a Roman citizen, a biblical scholar, and a traitor. Josephus (37-100 CE) has been ca......more

A step-by-step series of forty reflections on the core tenets of the Christian Faith for the Jordan Peterson generation.......more

This work explores the ambivalent and often troublesome relationship that Jews and Christians had in the Middle Ages, fo......more

The history, tragedies, and bitter controversies that characterized a language once spoken by 11 million people brought ......more

A leading scholar of Jewish mysticism with Hasidic insight for every Shabbat Arthur Green has been the leader of a neo-H......more

Menachem Kipnis (1878-1942) was one of the early twentieth-century’s greatest Jewish eastern European ethnomusicologists......more

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Philo’s treatise on freedom is the first extant exposition of the topic, which became neuralgic in the first century CE.......more

Platonism and Kabbalah share a prominent characteristic: the formulation of epistemological and ontological concepts in ......more

Throughout the history of the Western world, Jews have suffered various forms of exclusion, stigmatisation, and discrimi......more

Although Zoroastrians in the contemporary world are numerically few - estimated recently at less than 150,000 across the......more

Originally published in 1963, this book covers one of the least known parts of Jewish history: the golden age of Jewish ......more

Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of "the Wande......more

Moses Maimonides and Reb Chaim Volozhiner are among the most famous and influential medieval and early modern writers of......more

This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia. Di......more

Over the past two decades, the Book of Numbers has increasingly moved from the margins to the center of Pentateuchal stu......more

The Seventeenth Orion Symposium, held online, invited scholars to present research-in-progress, and to relate their text......more

This volume explores the historical and cultural dimensions of Jerusalem through the lens of world literature and art. J......more

An engaging biography that goes behind the myths to reveal the complex life of a transformative figure in modern America......more

Since its inception, the internet has been theorized as a democratic force, a public sphere in which hierarchies are fla......more

The 50th anniversary edition of a paradigm-shifting work by one of the most important Jewish figures in postwar America.......more