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Product Description: Adora! Her beauty was legend. And in the dying days of the great Byzantine Empire that last vestige of what had once been Imperial Rome her value as the emperor's daughter was priceless. Three men claimed her as wife. Orkhan, the powerful Ottoman sultan; the dashing pirate Alexander, lord of Mesembria; and Prince Murad, to whom Adora's heart truly belonged...read more

Product Description: This book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to Jewish imagery in the writings of Henry James. To date, it is the first and only full-length book devoted entirely to a consideration of the ethnic, especially Jewish, matter in the work of Henry James...read more

Against Apion

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Product Description: This research report answers the question, how and specifically in what passages do the distinct Rabbinic modes of discourse, Halakhah and Aggadah, intersect? How do they make a statement in common? Halakhah is given priority. Then where and how does Aggadah play a role in Halakhic discourse? What is at stake is the context of thought and expression established by systematic composites, compilations of many discrete facts in the service of a coherent argument...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966, remains largely an unknown or misunderstood figure. His innovation was to construct an intricate dialectic between Hebrew tradition and the modern predicament, thereby producing a distinctive mode of modernist narrative...read more

Product Description: This easy-to-use manual helps congregations, clergy, and facilitators establish and lead seven-week commitment workshops. Provides great detail for each session, providing texts, plans, and suggestions for further resources. For use in conjunction with the Participant's Manual.

Product Description: Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer when he is ten years old, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother, and that his aunt and uncle, immigrant chicken farmers living in Vineland, New Jersey, are really his parents...read more

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

Product Description: English summary: The doctrine of the universal priesthood has been an integral part of Protestant ecclesiology and clerical theology since the Reformation. Its significance is based on very few historical records from the First Epistle of Peter and the Book of Revelations...read more

Product Description: Lajos (Ludwig) Blau (1861-1936) was a professor at the Landesrabbinerschule (Hungarian rabbinical seminary) in Budapest. His published work covers biblical studies, Masoretic studies and the Talmud, but his interests in Jewish history also extended to archaeology and folklore...read more

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Product Description: What makes someone Jewish? Theodore Ross was nine years old when he moved with his mother from New York City to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Once there, his mother decided, for both personal and spiritual reasons, to have her family pretend not to be Jewish...read more

Product Description: Existen múltiples referencias a Amalek en la Torá, esparcidas en distintos contextos; algunas de ellas aparentemente irrelevantes, otras en eventos fundamentales de la historia bíblica de Israel. Entre todos esos Amalek de los cuales se habla en el Génesis, en Éxodo, en Números, en Jueces y en Samuel, una primera pregunta surge de modo espontáneo: ¿Se trata del mismo Amalek o se trata de personajes o pueblos distintos? Si se trata de un mismo pueblo de Amalek, ¿cuándo ha nacido? ¿Ha desaparecido o renace una y otra vez? Existe una maldición divina contra ese pueblo, ¿Israel debe en consecuencia buscar a Amalek y atacarlo? ¿Amalek volverá a atacar una y otra vez a Israel en cada generación? Si Amalek existe en cada generación, ¿cómo identificarlo? ¿Por qué Amalek existe? ¿Por qué Israel es el único pueblo que debe ocuparse de combatir a Amalek? ¿Por qué Amalek e Israel se odian y se odiarán hasta el final de los tiempos...read more

Product Description: The question isn't whether grace is there for you in Judaism. The question is, do you have the courage to accept it?"Chesed isn't a reward; it is reality. God's grace isn’t limited to what we want to happen or might like to happen...read more