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Winter of Second Chances
Bayliss, Jenny
Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word
Tirosh-Samuelso, Hava
Paperback, 28/02/2003, £23.95
This volume intends to contribute to the nascent discourse on Judaism and ecology by clarifying diverse conceptions of nature in Jewish thought and by using the insights of Judaism to formulate a constructive Jewish theology of nature.
Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism: A Critical Reader
Krondorfer, Bjorn
A comprehensive collection of texts that maps out the field of Critical Men's Studies in Religion. It contains 35 key texts that engage with the position of men in society and church, the ideals of masculinity as engendered by religious discourse, and alternative trajectories of being in the world, whether spiritually, relationally or sexually.
Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism
Ruttenberg, Danya
A collection of essays which not only surveys the challenges that sexuality poses to Jewish belief, but also offers fresh perspectives and insights on the changing place of sexuality within Jewish theology - and Jewish lives. It covers topics such as monogamy, inter-faith relationships, reproductive technology, and homosexuality.
Running with the Firm
Bannon, James
Because that's my f**king job.'In 1995, a film called I.D., about an ambitious young copper who was sent undercover to track down the `generals' of a football hooligan gang, achieved cult status for its sheer brutality and unsettling insight into the dark and often bloody side of the so-called beautiful game.
From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey: A Commentary on Food in the Torah
Lipton, Diana
Jesus Through the Old Testament: Transform your Bible understanding
Goldsworthy, Graeme
An Interrupted Life: Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum [1941-43]
Hillesum, Etty
Antisemitism: What It Is. What It Isn't. Why It Matters
Neuberger, Julia
A short, powerful exploration of antisemitism - what it is, and why we urgently need to gain a firmer shared understanding
Judaism: The Basics
Neusner, Jacob (Research Professor of Re
Judaism represents a tradition that goes back nearly 6,000 years. This book talks about the stories, beliefs and expressions of that tradition. The key topics covered include: the Torah; Israel - the state and its people; Passover; Reform Judaism, Orthodox Judaism and Zionism; and, the impact of the Holocaust.
Being Jewish Today
Bayfield, Tony
Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land
'His parting shot at opposing the storm of fanaticism breaking over our times' Financial Times Dear Zealots is an essential collection of three essays written out of a sense of urgency, concern, and a belief that a better future is still possible.
Jewish War
In AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a 6 month siege, the world-famous temple burnt to the ground. This was the disastrous outcome of a Jewish revolt against Roman domination beginning in AD 66 with high hopes and early success, but soon became mired in factional conflict, at its most extreme within Jerusalem itself.
History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 3: The Maccabaean Revolt, Hasmonaean Rule, and Herod the Great (175-4 BCE)
Grabbe, Dr. Lester L. (University of Hul
After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Harries, Richard
Christian theology has traditionally been very negative about Judaism. This book argues for a rethink in the light of the evil of the holocaust and offers fresh approaches to issues such as forgiveness and the problem of suffering in the two religions. It states that Christians should not be trying to convert Jews to Christianity.
Who's Who in Jewish History
Comay, Rev J
From Karl Marx to the Marx Brothers Who's Who in Jewish History presents a complete reference guide to over a thousand prominent men and women who have shaped Jewish culture.
Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy
FRANK DANIEL
An introduction to Jewish philosophical thought during the Middle Ages.
Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe
CARLEBACH ELISH
Palaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time.
Jewish History, Jewish Religion
SHABAK, ISRAEL
New edition of Shahak's controversial critique of Israel.
Unchosen
BURCHILL JULIE
Growing up as a blonde, popular, West Country schoolgirl, the author was the unlikeliest convert to militant Zionism but learning of the cruelty the Jewish people faced throughout history turned her into their biggest champion. In this book, she examines her 40-year obsession with the Jewish people and recounts a love affair.
Invention of the Jewish People
Sand,S.
7, 24/05/2010, £11.99
Shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the 19th century, rather than in biblical times when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation. This book demonstrates the construction of a nationalist myth and the collective mystification that this requires.
Land Flowing with Milk and Honey: Visions of Israel from Biblical to Modern Times
Greenspoon, L
Examines how the promised land of Israel has been seen and interpreted differently over the course of Jewish history by those who call it home and by the many other individuals and cultures it has affected.
FORESKIN'S LAMENT
AUSLANDER SHALOM
America's hottest, funniest, most controversial young Jewish memoirist ... blackly hilarious, groundbreaking' The Times
Witness from the Pulpit: Topical Sermons, 1933-1980
SAPERSTEIN, H
A collection of sermons by rabbi Harold I. Saperstein, made between 1933 and 1980. This book illustrates the value of the sermon as a resource for understanding the challenges faced by American Jews at some of the most dramatic moments in the turbulent history of the 20th century.
Essential Papers:Messianic Movements & Personalities in Jewish History
SAPERSTEIN, MAR
Represents a sample of the most penetrating and provocative scholarly interpretations of Jewish messianic movement from various perspectives- historical, sociological, psychological, and religious.
Studying Judaism: The Critical Issues
WRIGHT MELANIE
A guide to the study of Jewish faith. It uses the dimensional approach to the study of religions as an interpretive framework, and focuses on matters perceived as problematic by insider and/or outsider commentators, such as gender, demography, geo-politics, the 'museumisation' of Jewish cultures and its impact on religion and identity.
Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov
Buxbaum, Yitzha
Features the life, in stories, of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760), the founder of Hasidism. The Baal Shem Tov, or the Besht, as he is commonly called, led a revival in Judaism that put love and joy at the center of religious life and championed the piety of the common folk against the rabbinic establishment.
Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism
Brossat, Alain
Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition
Introduction to the Old Testament: Exploring Text Approaches and Issues
Goldingay, John
An introduction to the Old Testament that not only covers all the key components of most OT courses but also helps students to think for themselves about key issues of interpretation.
Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
Prochnik, George
A definitive biography of Gershom Scholem, the founder of modern Kabbalah, as well as a moving memoir of George Prochnik's time living in Jerusalem.
Modern Judaism An Oxford Guide
LANGE, NICHOLAS
Covering the major areas of thought in contemporary Jewish Studies, including considerations of religious differences, sociological, philosophical, and gender issues, geographical diversity, inter-faith relations, and the impact of the Shoah and the state of Israel, this volume is multi-authored guide to contemporary Jewish life and thought.
Holocaust Theology
Cohn-Sherbok, D
This book provides a panoramic survey of the responses of over one hundred leading Jewish and Christian Holocaust thinkers. Beginning with the religious challenge of the Holocaust, the collection explores a range of thinking which seek to reconcile God's ways with the existence of evil.
Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)
Hardback, 01/09/2014, £125.00
Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism
HARTMAN, TOVA
An innovative analysis of how creative tensions between modern Orthodox Judaism and feminism can lead to unexpected perspectives and beliefs
Godseeker's Guide
Blue,L.
Learning from problems posed by his audiences and his listeners, this work attempts to map out how we can fit common honesty and higher truths together. Focussing on issues that are much simpler than issues in Churches or Synagogues, it is also a consumer's guide to religion.
Judaism: An Introduction
LEAMAN OLIVER
Discusses the origins of the Jewish Bible. This work recounts the history of the Jewish people from the era of Patriarchs and Prophets through the Middle Ages up to the contemporary era. It outlines the Jewish liturgical calendar and its major rites and modes of worship. It considers the great variety of Jewish literatures, art, food and culture.
Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-century Intellectual and Political Movements
Response to Modernity
Meyer, Michael
Reform Judaism is today one of the three major branches of the Jewish faith. This is a history of the Reform movement, tracing its changing configuration and self-understanding from the beginnings of modernisation in late 18th-century Jewish thought and practice to American renewal in the 1970s.
Introduction to Judaism 2ed
LANGE NICHOLAS
This book studies the unique concept of Jewish peoplehood and its survival over the centuries in the face of many challenges.
Jewish People: Their History and Their Religion
GOLDBERG, DAVID J
Offers a survey of Jewish history and literature. This title presents a thematic analysis of the teachings and practices of Judaism.
Essential Talamud
Steinsaltz, Adi
This expanded version of the classic text on Jewish theology--by the scholar Newsweek called "a genius of the highest order"--demonstrates the contemporary relevance of this proud legacy of the Jewish people