Judaism category: 3160 books
Understanding Judaism
The Basics of Deed and Creed
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1992
Judaism is primarily a religion of actions rather than beliefs. When the Jewish people accepted God's covenant, they committed themselves first to obedience and practice, and then to striving to understand the message implicit in the Torah.
In Understanding Judaism: The Basics of Deed and Creed,...
Links in the Chain
Shapers of the Jewish Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1997
"Judaism, or that which has united the successive generations of Jews into one people, is not only a religion; it is a dynamic religious civilization."--Mordecai Menachem Kaplan, from Questions Jews Ask (1956) In assessing what their Jewish identities mean to them, Jews today sometimes describe themselves...
The Jewish Jesus
How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
In late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape...
God-Optional Judaism
Alternatives for Cultural Jews Who Love Their History, Heritage, & Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
God-Optional Judaism is a wonderful, chock-full resource for families and individuals who want to find their place in the Jewish world without necessarily believing in God. Funny, accessible, and open-minded, the book touches on key elements of Jewish history and philosophy, all the major holidays...
American Judaism
A History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Jonathan D. Sarna’s award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years.
Praise for the first edition:
“Sarna...
The Mystic Quest
An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
The Mystic Quest explains the major ideas and concepts of Jewish mystical thought in a way that the general reader can clearly understand. Drawing upon his own extensive research as well as on the growing body of scholarly material on the subject, Dr. David Ariel, president of the Cleveland College...
Women and Judaism
New Insights and Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Although women constitute half of the Jewish population and have always played essential roles in ensuring Jewish continuity and the preservation of Jewish beliefs and values, only recently have their contributions and achievements received sustained scholarly attention. Scholars have begun to investigate...
Israeli Judaism
The Sociology of Religion in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This is an unusual and extremely timely collective effort. It appears at a moment in which Israelis not only must confront their Arab neighbors, but must deal with one another as Jews possessing radically different views on the present and future of the Jewish tradition. With this seventh volume of...
Digital Judaism
Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In this volume, contributors consider the ways that Jewish communities and users of new media negotiate their uses of digital technologies in light of issues related to religious identity, community and authority. Digital Judaism presents a broad analysis of how and why various Jewish groups negotiate...
by Rabbi Sherwin T Wine
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Judaism Beyond God presents an innovative secular and humanistic alternative for Jewish identity. It provides new answers to old questions about the essence of Jewish identity, the real meaning of Jewish history, the significance of the Jewish personality, and the nature of Jewish ethics. It also...
Hasidism Incarnate
Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Hasidism Incarnate contends that much of modern Judaism in the West developed in reaction to Christianity and in defense of Judaism as a unique tradition. Ironically enough, this occurred even as modern Judaism increasingly dovetailed with Christianity with regard to its ethos, aesthetics, and attitude...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law explores the Jewish conception of law as an essential component of the divine-human relationship from biblical to modern times, as well as resistance to this conceptualization. It also traces the political, social, intellectual, and cultural circumstances...
Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Volume I
Sources From Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Across the ancient and medieval literature of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, one finds references to the antediluvian sage Enoch. Both the Book of the Watchers and the Astronomical Book were long known from their Ethiopic versions, which are preserved as part of Mashafa Henok Nabiy ('Book of Enoch...
by David H. Price
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany. This unprecedented effort to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire was challenged by Jewish communities, and, unexpectedly, by Johannes Reuchlin...