Judaism in Context
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Series Editorial Board: Rivka Ulmer, Bucknell University (Chair) Phillip Lieberman, Vanderbilt University Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University Jonathan Jacobs, Bar Ilan University Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford University W. David Nelson, Groton School Lieve Teugels, Protestant Theological University of Amsterdam Series Editorial Board: Rivka Ulmer, Bucknell University (Chair) Phillip Lieberman, Vanderbilt University Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University Jonathan Jacobs, Bar Ilan University Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford University W. David Nelson, Groton School Lieve Teugels, Protestant Theological University of Amsterdam Series Editorial Board: Rivka Ulmer, Bucknell University (Chair) Phillip Lieberman, Vanderbilt University Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University Jonathan Jacobs, Bar Ilan University Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford University W. David Nelson, Groton School Lieve Teugels, Protestant Theological University of Amsterdam
Judaism in Context provides a platform for scholarly research focusing on the relations between Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture and other peoples, religions, and cultures among whom Jews have lived and flourished, from ancient times through the 21st century. The series includes monographs as well as edited collections. Judaism in Context provides a platform for scholarly research focusing on the relations between Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture and other peoples, religions, and cultures among whom Jews have lived and flourished, from ancient times through the 21st century. The series includes monographs as well as edited collections. Judaism in Context provides a platform for scholarly research focusing on the relations between Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture and other peoples, religions, and cultures among whom Jews have lived and flourished, from ancient times through the 21st century. The series includes monographs as well as edited collections.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 282
ISBN: 9781617199158
Pub Date: 24 Oct 2013
Description:
This book completely redefines our understanding of fin de siècle Anglo-Jewish author Amy Levy and her writing. Demonstrating that Levy’s writing is less anti-Judaic and more profoundly influenced by the religious concerns of classical German Reformism, Luke Devine's innovative approach reveals that Levy's writing constitutes a genre whose female subjectivity evinces a concern for justice and authority that prefigures numerous aspects of Second-Wave Jewish feminist theory and its spiritual and theological underpinnings.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 148
ISBN: 9781611439243
Pub Date: 24 Jul 2013
Description:
This is the fifth issue of Proceedings of the Midrash Section at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature published in this series, and contains six papers on Jewish and Black biblical hermeneutics with regard to Rabbinic Midrash.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 286
ISBN: 9781463202224
Pub Date: 21 Mar 2013
Description:
This book is the first attempt to apply formal pragmatics to Judaic studies as a discipline under the auspices of cultural studies, reconstructing the pragmatic approach in Judaism and defining some of the pragmatic limits assumed in the Torah. It is a continuation of previous work considering Judaic reasoning from the standpoint of analytic philosophy and logic. The present volume aims to explicate the Judaic pragmatic point of view with an emphasis on logic, political studies, ethics, and speech act theory.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 1076
ISBN: 9781617196263
Pub Date: 11 Feb 2013
Description:
For almost a century after it was first published in 1845 Grace Aguilar's Women of Israel was presented as a high school graduation gift and even as a Christmas present to employees. More than 150 years before the current proliferation of books on women in biblical narrative and biblical law, Aguilar offered brilliant and innovative interpretations of abiding value. She took for granted that her readers could read Hebrew and that they, like herself, knew the King James Bible from memory.
The extensive introduction and notes will make this new edition once again accessible to laypersons, students, and scholars.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781593335854
Pub Date: 08 Jan 2013
Description:
Ritual and historical perspectives each provide only a partial view of early Jewish weddings. Combining these approaches allows for a new look at practices rejected or highlighted by early rabbis and their successors, and First Came Marriage: The Rabbinic Appropriation of Early Jewish Wedding Ritual investigates the process by which early Jews married and the various moves they used to minimize, elaborate or codify these practices.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 198
ISBN: 9781463201562
Pub Date: 13 Dec 2011
Description:
Was there an active Jewish-Christian polemic in fourth-century Persia? Aphrahat’s Demonstrations, a fourth-century adversus Judaeos text, clearly indicates that fourth-century Persian Christians were interested in the debate. Is there evidence of this polemic in the rabbinic literature?
Despite the lack of a comparable Jewish or rabbinic adversus Christianos literature, there is evidence, both from Aphrahat and the Rabbis that this polemic was not one sided.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781611436846
Pub Date: 06 Apr 2011
Description:
Lily Montagu’s Shekhinah outlines Lily Montagu’s theological writing, particularly her appropriation of the feminine aspect of the divine presence, Shekhinah, and provides a much needed corrective to the androcentric Anglo-Jewish historiography that has ignored, marginalized, and completely erased the founder of the Liberal Jewish movement in England. Luke Devine’s book is vital reading for students of Anglo-Jewry, First-Wave feminism, Jewish feminism, Liberal Judaism, and Jewish mysticism.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 217
ISBN: 9781611436839
Pub Date: 16 Nov 2010
Description:
Contained in this volume are the Proceedings of the Midrash session of the SBL's annual conferences in 2008 and 2009. This volume contains eight essays dealing with various aspects of rabbinic interpretation.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781617191596
Pub Date: 11 Jun 2010
Description:
The Rabbis’ King-Parables: Midrash From the Third-Century Roman Empire examines the ancient Rabbis at work using parables about kings; parables that reflect the Rabbis' ideas about the role of the ruler in society, and the relationship of humanity to God. It considers the parables as resistance literature in light of the work of theorists of dominated groups. It is the first systematic attempt to read the parables as sources for Roman history in over 100 years.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 268
ISBN: 9781617191947
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2010
Description:
Judaic reasoning is discussed from the standpoint of modern logic. Andrew Schumann defines Judaic logic, traces Aristotelian influence on developing Jewish studies in Judaic reasoning, and shows the non-Aristotelian core of fundamentals of Judaic logic. Further, Schumann proposes some modern approaches to understanding and formalizing Judaic reasoning, including Judaic semantics and (non-Aristotelian) syllogistics.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 157
ISBN: 9781593336196
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2008
Description:
The third issue of Proceedings of the Midrash session at the SBL Annual meeting published in this series. This volume contains papers on religion in midrash (2006) and modes of biblical interpretation in rabbinic, Syriac and Islamic traditions (2007).
Format: Hardback
Pages: 188
ISBN: 9781593335823
Pub Date: 17 Jul 2007
Description:
A collection of seven groundbreaking essays on Rabbinic midrash and related texts by a new generation of erudite scholars combining the themes of the 2004 and 2005 SBL midrash sessions: “Jewish and Christian Hermeneutics” and “Midrash and Cultural Studies,” this book is a must have for clergy, students, scholars, and laypersons interested in deepening their understanding of Rabbinic and Patristic biblical interpretation.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 226
ISBN: 9781593332143
Pub Date: 19 Sep 2006
Description:
Through literary, historical, archaeological, and engendered readings, this collection of essays presents a multidisciplinary analysis of rabbinic texts. Such a conversation between diverse scholars illuminates the hermeneutical issues generated by the contemporary study of the Talmud and Midrash.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 164
ISBN: 9781593333379
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2005
Description:
Mordecai Joseph Leiner of Izbica was a unique thinker in the history of Hasidism with a highly personal vision of Judaism. His teachings, partially derived from the Przysucha-Kotsk school, adopted the concept of absolute divine providence as a cornerstone. He also reinterpreted the Lurianic concept of tiqqun, originally intended as a cosmological concept, to apply to the individual, creating a new path to spiritual self-perfection.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9781593330972
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2005
Description:
Walenty Potocki was a young Polish nobleman who abandoned wealth, power, and unlimited worldly prospects to convert to new religion - Judaism. Potocki was betrayed by a member of the religious community he embraced and burned at the stake by the Church he left behind in 1749. This book examines eleven versions of this remarkable man’s story and the heated, previously unpublished, correspondence between the Potocki clan and one of his early biographers.
Noble Soul is the record of one man’s defining faith, and of the compelling human need for personal spiritual fulfillment.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 68
ISBN: 9781593332013
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2005
Description:
This work consists of a selection of papers from sessions during the first two years of SBL Consultation on Midrash. It demonstrates innovative approaches to midrashic texts and hermeneutic reflections on similarities and differences between interpretations of the Bible.
