Product Description: Winner of the Theology and Religious Studies award in the Professional and Scholarly Publishing awards given by the Association of American PublishersThis provocative study of Jerusalem's Temple Mount unravels popular scholarly paradigms about the origins of this contested sacred site and its significance in Jewish and Christian traditions...read more

Product Description: These essays examine the ways in which Jewish culture has existed in a mutually enriching, if sometimes problematic, relationship with surrounding non-Jewish cultures. Leading scholars in Judaic studies take up broad methodological concerns and specific case studies illustrating Jewish embeddedness in other cultures and re-examining the famous textuality of the Jews, expanding the notion of text to include other works of art, both material and spiritual...read more