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Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought

Product Description: The book of Esther was a conscious reaction to much of the conventional wisdom of its day, challenging beliefs regarding the Jerusalem Temple, the land of Israel, Jewish law, and even God. Aaron Koller identifies Esther as primarily a political work, and shows that early reactions ranged from ignoring the book to 'rewriting' Esther in order to correct its perceived flaws...read more

By Aaron Koller

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9781107048355 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2014, cover price $99.99

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9781107673885 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 28, 2016, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: The book of Esther was a conscious reaction to much of the conventional wisdom of its day, challenging beliefs regarding the Jerusalem Temple, the land of Israel, Jewish law, and even God.

Same God, Other God: Judaism, Hinduism, and the Problem of Idolatry

Product Description: Jews often consider Hinduism to be Avoda Zara, idolatry, due to its worship of images and multiple gods. Closer study of Hinduism and of recent Jewish attitudes to it suggests the problem is far more complex. In the process of considering Hinduism's status as Avoda Zara, this book revisits the fundamental definitions of Avoda Zara and asks how we use the category...read more

By Alon Goshen-Gottstein

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9781137558206 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 30, 2015, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Jews often consider Hinduism to be Avoda Zara, idolatry, due to its worship of images and multiple gods.

The Name of God in Jewish Thought: A Philosophical Analysis of Mystical Traditions from Apocalyptic to Kabbalah

Product Description: One of the most powerful traditions of the Jewish fascination with language is that of the Name. Indeed, the Jewish mystical tradition would seem a two millennia long meditation on the nature of name in relation to object, and how name mediates between subject and object...read more

By Michael T. Miller

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9781138944053 | Routledge, November 2, 2015, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: One of the most powerful traditions of the Jewish fascination with language is that of the Name.

J. David Bleich: Where Halakhah and Philosophy Meet

Product Description: Rabbi J. David Bleich is Professor of Talmud (Rosh Yeshiva) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University, as well as the Director of its Postgraduate Institute for the study of Talmudic Jurisprudence and Family Law...read more

By Aaron W. Hughes (editor)

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9789004301771 | Brill Academic Pub, August 27, 2015, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Rabbi J.

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9789004302921 | Brill Academic Pub, August 27, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Rabbi J.

A Mirror of Rabbinic Hermeneutics: Studies in Religion, Magic, and Language Theory in Ancient Judaism

Product Description: Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of reference worth commentary. As a mirror, it includes this world but perhaps also falsifies reality, adapting it to one's own aims and necessities...read more

By Giuseppe Veltri

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9783110368376 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, August 28, 2015, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of reference worth commentary.

Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition

By Benjamin D. Sommer

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9780300158731 | Yale Univ Pr, June 30, 2015, cover price $50.00

A Legacy of Learning: Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner

A comprehensive collection of baseball facts and opinions, dream-team lineups, surprising statistics, trivia, memorable events, and four hundred lists of baseball lineups

By Alan J. Avery-Peck (editor), Bruce Chilton (editor), William Scott Green (editor) and Gary G. Porton (editor)

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9789004284272 | Brill Academic Pub, October 16, 2014, cover price $181.00

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9780380895304, titled "All-Time All-Star Baseball Book" | Avon Books, May 1, 1985, cover price $3.95 | also contains All-Time All-Star Baseball Book | About this edition: A comprehensive collection of baseball facts and opinions, dream-team lineups, surprising statistics, trivia, memorable events, and four hundred lists of baseball lineups

Meals in Early Judaism: Social Formation at the Table

Product Description: This is the first book about the meals of Early Judaism. As such it breaks important new ground in establishing the basis for understanding the centrality of meals in this pivotal period of Judaism and providing a framework of historical patterns and influences.

By Hal Taussig (editor)

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9781137372567 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 9, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This is the first book about the meals of Early Judaism.

Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity

By Alicia J. Batten (editor)

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9781472422767 | Ashgate Pub Co, August 28, 2014, cover price $129.95

Rabbinic Traditions Between Palestine and Babylonia

By Tal Ilan (editor)

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9789004267893 | Brill Academic Pub, May 28, 2014, cover price $194.00

Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic Law

By Jane L. Kanarek

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9781107047815 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2014, cover price $99.99

Christ in the Sabbath

Product Description: What does the Sabbath mean to you?Christ in the Sabbath will take you on a âSabbath tourâ of the Bible. Youâll explore the themes of Shabbat (Hebrew for "Sabbath") and rest in both Old and New Testament and then discover what it has meant to Jews and Christians for centuries...read more

By Rich Robinson

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9780802411990 | Moody Pub, May 1, 2014, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: What does the Sabbath mean to you?

Moses and the Path to Leadership

Product Description: Many believe that the stories surrounding the birth of Moses mark him from the cradle as being destined for leadership. Others argue that the track record of Moses as a leader leaves much to be desired, and that without the constant prompting by God, he would never have survived...read more

By Zvi Grumet

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9789655241556 | Urim Pubns, May 1, 2014, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Many believe that the stories surrounding the birth of Moses mark him from the cradle as being destined for leadership.

Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine

By Steven Fine (editor) and Aaron Koller (editor)

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9781614514855 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, May 1, 2014, cover price $182.00

Jesus, the Sabbath and the Jewish Debate: Healing on the Sabbath in the 1st and 2nd Centuries Ce

By Nina L. Collins

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9780567385871 | T&t Clark Ltd, November 20, 2014, cover price $145.00

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9780567667533 | T&t Clark Ltd, March 24, 2016, cover price $39.95

Righteous Giving to the Poor: Tzedakah ("charity") in Classical Rabbinic Judaism; Including a Brief Introduction to Rabbinic Literature

Product Description: The concept of Tzedakah ( Charity ) as set forth in rabbinic literature is one of the greatest moral insights in the history of the Jewish people. Since the dawn of humanity there has always been poverty and its concomitant suffering...read more

By Moshe Ulmer

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9781463202613 | Gorgias Pr Llc, April 21, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The concept of Tzedakah ( Charity ) as set forth in rabbinic literature is one of the greatest moral insights in the history of the Jewish people.

From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Wisdom and the Pursuit of Peace

Product Description: Shows how ancient Jewish texts and traditions offer a guide to reconciliation and peace building in our lives, our communities, and the world.

By Amy Eilberg

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9781626980617 | Orbis Books, April 10, 2014, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Shows how ancient Jewish texts and traditions offer a guide to reconciliation and peace building in our lives, our communities, and the world.

Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature

Product Description: This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbisâ new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self. Focusing on the Mishnah, a Palestinian legal codex compiled around the turn of the third century CE, Mira Balberg shows how the rabbis constructed the processes of contracting, conveying, and managing ritual impurity as ways of negotiating the relations between oneâs self and oneâs body and, more broadly, the relations between oneâs self and oneâs human and nonhuman environments...read more

By Mira Balberg

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9780520280632 | Univ of California Pr, February 15, 2014, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbisâ new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self.

A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales

By Ilana Kurshan (trans)

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9780827612099 | Reprint edition (Jewish Pubn Society, March 1, 2014), cover price $21.95

Are You Not a Man of God?: Devotion, Betrayal, and Social Criticism in Jewish Tradition

By Charlie Buckholtz

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9780199337439 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 21, 2014, cover price $78.00

Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present

By Beth A. Berkowitz

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9781107013711 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 19, 2012, cover price $99.99

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9781107663619 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 5, 2014, cover price $44.99

The Status of Women in Jewish Tradition

Product Description: Most ancient societies were patriarchal in outlook, but not all patriarchies are equally condescending toward women. Impelled by the gnawing question of whether the inferiority of women is integral to the Torah's vision, Sassoon sets out to determine where the Bible, the Talmud, and related literature, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls, sit on this continuum of patriarchal condescension...read more

By Isaac Sassoon

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9781107001749 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 10, 2011, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Most ancient societies were patriarchal in outlook, but not all patriarchies are equally condescending toward women.

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9781107618039 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 2, 2014), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Most ancient societies were patriarchal in outlook, but not all patriarchies are equally condescending toward women.

Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture

By Lawrence H. Schiffman (editor)

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9780827609334 | Jewish Pubn Society, December 1, 2013, cover price $300.00

Second Temple Pseudepigraphy: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Apocalyptic Texts and Related Jewish Literature

Product Description: At this point of the scholarly debate on the nature of Second Temple pseudepigraphy, one may ask why another look at the problem is needed. This book is not the definitive answer to that problem but it proposes different paths - or better still, a two-fold path: on one hand to understand Second Temple pseudepigraphy as a mystical experience and on the other, for lack of a suitable ancient example, to compare it to modern-day automatic writing...read more

By Vicente Dobroruka

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9783110333541 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, November 30, 2013, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: At this point of the scholarly debate on the nature of Second Temple pseudepigraphy, one may ask why another look at the problem is needed.

The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity

Product Description: This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately first to seventh centuries). It tracks the extent and effect to which the rabbis living in the Greco-Roman and Persian worlds sought to appropriate, recast and discipline contemporaneous understandings of sight...read more

By Rachel Beis

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9781107032514 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 21, 2013, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately first to seventh centuries).

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