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Narratives and Jewish Bioethics
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 80.00Narratives and Jewish Bioethics searches for answers to the critical question of what roles ancient narratives play in creating modern norms by Jewish bioethicists utilizing the Jewish textual tradition. more...
The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith
Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 21.99Are there parallels between the "moment of insight" in science and the emergence of the "unknowable" in religious faith? Where does scientific insight come from? Award-winning biologist Robert Pollack argues that an alliance between religious faith and science is not necessarily an argument in favor of irrationality: the two can inform each other's... more...
Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 158.00The twelfth century was a period of rapid change in Europe. The intellectual landscape was being transformed by new access to classical works through non-Christian sources. The Christian church was consequently trying to strengthen its control over the priesthood and laity and within the church a dramatic spiritual renewal was taking place. Christians... more...
Separation of Church and State
University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 32.50Fertility and Jewish Law
Brandeis University Press 2012; US$ 34.99A comprehensive comparative study of Jewish law on contemporary reproductive issues from a gender perspective more...
Fatal Embrace
Beaufort Books 2012; US$ 18.90Mark Braverman shows how the Jewish quest for safety and empowerment and the Christian endeavor to atone for centuries of anti-Semitism have combined to suppress the conversations needed to bring about a just and lasting peace in the Holy Land. Fatal Embrace charts Braverman's journey as an American Jew struggling with the difficult realities of... more...
War and Peace in Jewish Tradition
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00The transition between the reality of war and a hope for peace has accompanied the Jewish people since biblical times. However, the ways in which both concepts are understood have changed many times over the ages, and both have different implications for an independent nation in its own land than they do for a community of exiles living as a minority... more...
The Jewish Jesus
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 35.00In 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 its own identity. In The Jewish Jesus , Peter... more...
Judaism and World Religions
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 100.00Provides the first extensive collection of traditional and academic Jewish approaches to the religions of the world, focusing on those Jewish thinkers that actually encounter the other world religions -that is, it moves beyond the theory of inclusive/exclusive/pluralistic categories and looks at Judaism's interactions with other faiths. more...









