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A judeo-arabic parody of the life of jesus
Miriam Goldstein demonstrates that Toledot Yeshu , the notorious parody of the life of Jesus, was popular and long-lived among Arabic-speaking Jews. Retelling the development of this narrative, she transforms historical understandings of Toledot Yeshu and of the communities who read it.
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Women rabbis
This collection of essays, written by distinguished rabbis and scholars, seeks to examine the significance of women in the modern rabbinate.
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The merit of our mothers
The prayers in this volume are characterized by a highly personal and intimate style and mark occasions in the religious calendar, such as the Tkhine for the Blessing of the New Moon, as well as occasions in the life of a woman, such as the Tkhine for a Mother who Leads Her Child to Kheyder for t...
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Reason and hope
The 19th century neo-Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen has provided significant underpinnings for understanding Judaism as a religion with a rational and universal character, as a religion of hope for the future. The essays selected here lay out his exposition of God as the Uniquely One and expl...
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Were our mouths filled with song
Since the period in which the Jewish liturgy was standardized, there has hardly been a time when it was not in a state of flux. Friedland explores the countless ways that the Siddur, Mahzor and Haggadah have been adjusted or transformed so as to faithfully mirror modern Jews' understanding of the...
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Yannai on genesis
Piyyut is the art of Hebrew or Aramaic poetry composed either in place of or as adornments to Jewish statutory prayers. Laura S. Lieber uses the piyyutim of a single poet, Yannai (ca. sixth century C.E.), to introduce readers to this important but largely unfamiliar body of writings.
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Sisterhood
Women of Reform Judaism, in cooperation with The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and Hebrew Union College Press, marks its centennial anniversary with this collection of new scholarly essays which looks back at its history in order to understand how the hopes and dreams ...
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Guidance, not governance
Solomon Bennett Freehof (1892-1990) was one of America's most distinguished, influential, and beloved rabbis. This book analyses Freehof's views on a number of crucial issues that illustrate the evolution of American Reform Judaism.
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Die geburt der literatur aus der aggada
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Devotion and commandment
The Hasidic masters of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century reinterpreted the ancient rabbis' insistence that the patriarchs lived within the Law. Green uses this Hasidic debate on the patriarchs and the commandments as a point of departure for a wide-ranging consideration of the relationship...
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Die fahrt des rabbi nachman von brazlaw ins land israel (1798-1799)
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Your voice like a ram's horn
This book continues the exploration of the Jewish sermon Saperstein began in his groundbreaking Jewish Preaching 1200-1800. His new book is an indispensible resource for understanding Jewish history, spirituality, and thought from the High Middle Ages to the beginning of the Emancipation in Europe.
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"better a scholar than a prophet"
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Massekhet qiddushin chapter 4
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Happiness in premodern judaism
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century.
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Tradition, interpretation, and change
Draws on a wide range of primary sources, incl. classical rabbinic and geonic works, liturgical documents, medieval codes, responsa, and siddur commentaries, minhag books, medieval siddur manuscripts, and early printed siddurim. Provides an in-depth account of the history and history of interpret...
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Religion und politik
English summary: The messianic has always been a problem between the monotheistic religions. Not only did it divide Jews and Christians, it also caused divisions among Jews and among Christians as well. In the 20th century , philosophers and political leaders attached increasing importance to it ...
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The community rules from qumran
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The greening of american orthodox judaism
The history of a relatively unknown and short-lived Jewish collegiate organization, Yavneh (The National Jewish Religious Students Association) particularly during its heyday in the 1960s: Yavneh's appearance in 1960, its mission and organizational efflorescence, its educational innovations, its ...
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Judentum und antisemitismus in europa
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Christologie zwischen judentum und christentum
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The talmud - a personal take
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L'adversaire de dieu - der widersacher gottes
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Jesus von nazareth zwischen judentum und christentum
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From ideology to liturgy
Reprint with new Preface. This study examines Reconstructionism's interpretation and adaptation of the traditional Jewish liturgy and creation of new prayer texts to convey and express its changing ideology.
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Tolerance and transformation
In this book, Sandra B. Lubarsky argues that the premodern Jewish approach to non-Jews is an inadequate framework for today's religious debates since it accords no independent value to any non-Jewish tradition. She calls for a move beyond tolerance and beyond mutual appreciation toward dialogue t...
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Scripture, interpretation, or authority?
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Levi's vindication
The "1007 Anonymous," an imaginative, brief text composed in the third or early fourth decade of the thirteenth century, illustrates the proper relations between Jews and their lay rulers and the pope.
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A great voice that did not cease
Michael Chernick demonstrates how hermeneutical methods helped the Rabbis confront the difficulties that arose when logical and interpretative problems appeared in scriptural and, later, rabbinic texts.
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Abraham geiger & liberal judaism
This reprint edition will be of interest to anyone who seeks to understand the intellectual roots of liberal Judaism. The biographical introduction is sympathetic and balanced, but the real Geiger-a great scholar, profound thinker, and ardent Jew-emerges from the excerpts of his own writings to w...
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To worship god properly
Ruth Langer uses the tools of historical scholarship and anthropological study of ritual to analyze some of the dynamics that have shaped Jewish liturgical law and determined the broader outlines of the prayer life of the Jews.
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Jewish lore in manichaean cosmogony
Reeves demonstrates that the motifs of Jewish Enochic literature, in particular those of the story of the Watchers and Giants, form the skeletal structure of Mani's cosmological teachings, and that Chapters 1 to 11 of Genesis fertilized Near Eastern thought, even to the borders of India and China.
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My dear daughter
This volume makes available the 1585 edition of the Seder mitzvot hanashim, in Yiddish and English. The book was intended to teach Jewish women in sixteenth-century Poland the rules, rituals, and customs pertaining to the sexual life of couples within the context of marriage. Edward Fram sets the...
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Jewish law in transition
The prohibition against lending on interest (Exodus 22:24) is a well-known biblical law: "If you lend to any one of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor, and you shall not exact interest from him." This book explains how and when this law of high moral standing co...
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Yahoel and metatron
In this work, Andrei A. Orlov examines Jewish apocalyptic traditions about the angel Yahoel, tracing their conceptual impact on the development of later rabbinic and Hekhalot beliefs concerning the supreme angel Metatron. The author argues that the figure Yahoel, who became associated in Jewish a...
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The qur'an revealed
This is a landmark publication in the history of Islamic studies, providing for the first time a comprehensive critical analysis of Bedizuzzaman Said Nursi's 6000-page work of Quranic exegesis, The Epistles of Light.
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Islamic theology and the problem of evil
A rigorous study of the problem of evil in Islamic theologyLike their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, who is perfectly good, compassionate, merciful, powerful, and wise permits intense and profuse evil and suffering in the world. At its core, Islamic Theo...
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A qur'anic apocalypse
Michael Cuypers applies the principles of Semitic rhetoric - a method of textual analysis developed in the field of biblical studies – to the thirty-three small suras (81 to 114) of the Qur'an, making it possible to grasp the internal coherence of the suras, and the semantic links between them.
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Sufism
A succinct presentation of the essentials of Sufism and shows how Sufis live and worship, and whyFor more than a millennium, Sufism has been the core of the spiritual experience of countless Muslims. As the chief mystical tradition of Islam, it has helped to shape the history of Islamic societies...
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Scripts and scripture
How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented and lacked a clearly established tradition of writing to render the Arabic language? The studies in this volume address different aspects of this question.
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The formation of islamic hermeneutics
This book is the first historical analysis of those parts of Islamic legal theory that deal with the language of revelation, and a milestone in reconstructing the missing history of legal theory in the ninth and tenth centuries. It offers a fresh interpretation of al-Shafii’s seminal thought.
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Earliest writings on the life of muhammad
The main part of this book consists of a compilation and evaluation of the corpus of traditions about the life of Muhammad attributed to the early scholar 'Urwa ibn al-Zubayr (c. 643-c. 712). 'Urwa was the nephew of the Prophet's wife 'A'isa, who was also his most important informant.
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The 'constitution of medina'
The 'Constitution of Medina' dates from the first year after Muhammad’s hijra (622 CE), or "emigration", which brought him from his hometown Mecca to Yathrib or Medina in the Hijaz (northern Arabia). This edited translation and interpretation of the document focuses on the Jewish tribes, the Trea...
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Early modern trends in islamic theology
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Islamic leadership and the state in eurasia
The book presents the first integrated study of the relationship between official Islamic leadership (muftiship), non-official Islamic authorities, grassroots Muslim communities and the state in post-Communist Eurasia. It employs a history-based perspective and compares this relationship to that ...
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The mosaics of khirbet el-mafjar
Originating from buildings in the oasis of Jericho and dating from the first half of the eighth century, during the time of Umayyad caliphate of the early Islamic period. In 2010 the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage uncovered, cleaned, and photographed these early Islamic mosaics.
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Der islam als nachchristliche religion
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Jerusalem - ziel, vision, vorbild
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New trends in qur'nic studies
This book discusses recent trends and issues in the scholarly study of the Qur’ān and its exegesis. In addition, it addresses recent scholarship on tafsīr (qur'anic exegesis), including thematic interpretation, diacronic and syncronic readings of the Qur’ān.
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The restoration of sunnism
A study of the early history of Islamic law schools (s. madrasa, pl. madāris) and their professors in late Fāṭimid and Aiyūbid Egypt (495-647/1101-1249). It describes the origin and spread of these institutions, their teachers, and their role in the religious life of Egypt.
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Studies in muslim apocalyptic
A detailed study on the nature of Muslim apocalyptic material in Islam, both Sunni and Shi’i. Taking a transcultural perspective by also discussing Christian and Jewish apocalyptic traditions, it offers in eight studies and three appendices a typology of apocalypses and many new insights into the...
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Trial and tribulation in the qur'an
This book offers a critical analysis and re-examination of the notion of Divine trial, by providing a comprehensive typology and a contextual interpretation of the Qur'anic narratives pertaining to the concept. Divine trial is investigated through a historical review of prophetic tradition (hadit...
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Ethical teachings of abū ḥāmid al-ghazālī
This book studies the interplay of economic philosophy and moral conduct as reflected in the writings of one of the most renowned scholars in Islamic history, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). Al-Ghazālī contributed to Islamic theology, philosophy, and Sufism but is also regarded as one of the fore...
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Islamic theological discourses and the legacy of kalam (3-volume set)
With a concern for context and history, this major reference work presents key academic contributions devoted to the study of early, classical and pre-modern Islamic theological thought. The aim is to provide a balanced survey of the research discourses which have shaped study of the rich legacy ...
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Darlegung islamischen glaubens und lebens: eine anleitung zu religiöser unterweisung
Stefan Schreiner offers an annotated translation of an Islamic catechism ( Ilmihal ) printed in Vilnius in 1830 and written by Józef Sobolewski, a Polish-Lithuanian Muslim and judge in Nowogródek (today: Navahrudak, Belarus), who followed the Hanafi school of law and the M?tur?d? school of theology.
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Ethics in islam
Essays by Fazlur Rahman, Charles E Butterworth, George Makdisi, Kemal Faruki, George F Hourani, Wilferd Madelung, Frederick M Denny.
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Argumentation und apologetik
In this study, Serkan Ince describes the history of Islamic apologetics on Christianity in the Middle Ages and analyses central Islamic arguments on Christian theology, especially those of al-Jaʿfarī, who lived and worked in Egypt in the 13th century. The study contains a full translation of the ...
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Journal of the international quranic studies association, volume 7
The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qur'anic Studies Association.
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Journal of the international qur'anic studies association volume 6 (2021)
The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qur'anic Studies Association.
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Between bible and qur'an
This book investigates the literary role played by the Bible in Islamic sources. It focuses on the tension between Biblical and Qur'anic models as revealed in Islamic texts describing contacts between the Muslims and the "Children of Israel", as Jews and Christians are usually called in the conte...
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Das geheimnis der gegenwart gottes
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Aushandlungen religiosen wissens - negotiated religious knowledge
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Sakularisierung - ein moderner mythos?
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Gott, trinitat und geist
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Gershom scholem in deutschland
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In search for aram and israel
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Zwischen exegese und religioser praxis
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Martin luthers tischreden
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Die evangelischen kirchenordnungen des xvi. jahrhunderts
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Die entstehung des negativen melanchthonbildes
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History, ideology and bible interpretation in the dead sea scrolls
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Scriptures and sectarianism
The Dead Sea Scrolls include many texts that were produced by a sectarian movement (and also many that were not). The movement had its origin in disputes about the interpretation of the Scriptures, especially the Torah, not in disputes about the priesthood as had earlier been assumed. The definit...
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Propheten, schwärmer, rottengeister
Luther used and coined a rich arsenal of battle names and pejorative terms with which he labelled his 'radical' opponents and through which he marked 'deviation' from his own position. Thomas Hahn-Bruckart explores these and other strategies of linguistic inclusion and exclusion to trace how iden...
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Abraham among golems
Andrei A. Orlov explores various traditions of the image of God found in the Jewish pseudepigrapha, focusing particularly on the symbolism in the Apocalypse of Abraham , arguing that in early Jewish accounts, certain biblical characters were envisioned as divine representations in the form of the...
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Predigt und erbauung
What rhetorical strategies with the goal of edification do theologians pursue in sermons? How are their theological concepts expressed in this aesthetic form, which is oriented towards the reality of people's lives? This volume is intended as a foundation for understanding the most important Prot...
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Säkulare religion
The secular and the religious only appear to be opposites when religion is equated with metaphysical transcendence. As this volume shows, secular sources of meaning such as the laws of nature, world revolution, human rights, progress through growth or saving the blue planet from the Anthropocene ...
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Otto piper
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the death of the theologian Otto Piper (1891-1982), a conference was held in Hannover in spring 2022, the results of which are documented in this anthology. Piper was considered one of the few Protestant intellectuals who vehemently defended the democrat...
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Offenbarung und verhüllung
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Religiöse dynamik zwischen 1380 und 1520
That the period between 1380 and 1520 did not see a late medieval setting of the sun on, but rather the dawn of a powerful new era of dynamic religion is the main thesis of Berndt Hamm's new volume. Driven by a fearful anticipation of the afterlife and fuelled by a desire for grace and salvation,...
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Citifying jesus
“Urban religion" is not the generic term for any religion existing within an urban environment. This book demonstrates that examining early Christianity as an urban religion involves understanding that certain fundamental attributes, usually seen as inherent to this religion, can be better explai...
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Aschdod und jerusalem
Using Ashdod and Jerusalem as examples, Felix Hagemeyer examines the relations between Judah and the Mediterranean coast of Israel/Palestine based on archaeological finds, extrabiblical and biblical sources; the Ashdod texts of the Hebrew Bible mostly oppose the growing entanglements.
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Religion und gesellschaftliche differenzierung
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Zentralitat und religion
English summary: The powerful imperium romanum was established and ruled from afar by one single urban center. This center was however not only a real tightly-packed area of people, resources and power; it was also an esthetically experienceable spiritual center. It was the urban, architectural, ...
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