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Four Stages of Rabbinic Judaismby Jacob Neusner
Routledge 1999; US$ 43.95This concise yet comprehensive volume provides a lucid introduction to the genesis and development of Rabbinic Judaism. more...
Judaic Religion in the Second Temple Periodby Lester L. Grabbe
Routledge 2000; US$ 138.00The developments in Judaism during the Second Temple period remain important to contemporary Jewish religion. This volume provides a much needed encyclopedic study of the period. Includes bibliographies, cross-references and summaries. more...
Judaism and Collective Lifeby Aryei Fishman
Routledge 2002; US$ 153.00This book takes as its point of departure the historical fact that it was Orthodox pioneers of German origin, in contrast to their Eastern European counterparts, who successfully developed religious kibbutz life. more...
Jewish studies between the disciplines =by K. Herrmann; M. Schlter; G. Veltri
BRILL 2003; US$ 177.00For someone directing a "small" academic institution, Peter Schafer has managed during his academic career to guide and influence a large number of students in their scholarly pursuits in Jewish studies. This work covers topics such as mysticism and magic, and Rabbinic Judaism. more...
The idea of history in rabbinic Judaismby J. Neusner
BRILL 2004; US$ 158.00Using Rabbinic Judaism as a case study, Neusner (religion and theology, Bard College) explains how Judaism and Christianity ordinarily read Scripture before the advent of historicism about two centuries ago that is, for most of their history. The difference between historical and what he calls paradigmatic thinking, he says, is how time is marked a more...
Israelby Adolphe Lods
Taylor & Francis 1997; US$ 460.00Originally published between 1920-70, the aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up-to-date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available in a number of different sets. more...
Sparks Amidst the Ashesby Byron L. Sherwin
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 70.00For many years, Poland served as the epicentre of Jewish life but became a "Jewish Atlantis" after the Holocaust. This book shows how the works of intellect produced during the Jewish "Golden Age" in Poland can provide today's Jews with the resources required to ensure future Jewish continuity. more...
Households, Sects, and the Origins of Rabbinic Judaismby Alexei M. Sivertsev
BRILL 2005; US$ 136.00This book suggests a new approach to the social history of Jewish religious movements in the Second Temple and early Rabbinic periods. It argues that most of these movements and their traditions emerged within the context of complex interaction between traditional families and disciple circles. more...
Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Cultureby John J. Collins
BRILL 2005; US$ 113.00A collection of twelve essays on the Jewish encounter with Hellenism, both in the Diaspora and in the land of Israel, including studies of several individual texts. more...
Survival Through Integrationby Ofer Shiff
BRILL 2004; US$ 102.00This book describes the social and cultural challenges posed by the Holocaust from the subjective angle of those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the universalistic American Jewish Reform belief in integration even in view of the disheartening realities of the 1930s and the 1940s. more...