Author: Lieve Teugels
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004421416
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Aggadat Bereshit is a homiletic Midrash on the Book of Genesis written in Hebrew, about the 10th century CE. It has a unique threefold structure, dividing the chapters or homilies according to the three parts of Tenakh: Torah (Genesis), Prophets and Writings. It contains interesting material, some unparalleled in rabbinic literature, such as an anti-Christian interpretation of Genesis 22. Besides being the first translation, this volume presents some variants from manuscripts unknown by its last editor (S. Buber, Krakow 1903). This English translation will be welcomed in the world of Jewish and Biblical Studies, academics as well as lay-persons with lesser knowledge of rabbinic Hebrew. The extensive introduction gives an up-to-date overview of the questions as to text, contents, structure, dating and provenance of this hitherto neglected Midrash.
Author: Michael Harvey Koplitz
Publisher: Michael Harvey Koplitz
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Parsha Chayei Sarah, Parsha Vayera, and Parsha Toldot are deeply examined in this volume using Semitic Bible Study Methods including an analysis of the language and culture.
Author: Michael Harvey Koplitz
Publisher: Michael Harvey Koplitz
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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This is a commentary on the first three parshim of the book of Genesis using Semitic Bible Study Methods.
Author: Dan Rickett
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900441388X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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In Separating Abram and Lot: The Narrative Role and Early Reception of Genesis 13, Dan Rickett presents a fresh analysis of two of Genesis’ most important characters. Many have understood Lot as Abram’s potential heir and as an ethical contrast to him. Here, Rickett explores whether these readings best reflect the focus of the story. In particular, he considers the origin of these readings and how a study of the early Jewish and Christian reception of Genesis 13 might help identify that origin. In turn, due attention is given to the overall purpose of Genesis 13, as well as how Lot and his function in the text should be understood.
Author: European Association for Jewish Studies. Congress
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004115545
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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169 papers from the Toledo Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies, offering a broad, realistic perspective on the advances, achievements and anxieties of Judaic Studies, from the Bible to our days, on the eve of the new millennium.
Author: Antii Laato
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004187286
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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The 16 contributions to this volume, written by scholars from various fields of religious studies, lead the reader to comprehend the plurality of interreligious encounters, hostile yet also peaceful, between the Children of Abraham, i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Author: Zev Garber
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 161249188X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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There is a general understanding within religious and academic circles that the incarnate Christ of Christian belief lived and died a faithful Jew. This volume addresses Jesus in the context of Judaism. By emphasizing his Jewishness, the authors challenge today’s Jews to reclaim the Nazarene as a proto-rebel rabbi and invite Christians to discover or rediscover the Church’s Jewish heritage. The essays in this volume cover historical, literary, liturgical, philosophical, religious, theological, and contemporary issues related to the Jewish Jesus. Several of them were originally presented at a three-day symposium on “Jesus in the Context of Judaism and the Challenge to the Church,” hosted by the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University in 2009. In the context of pluralism, in the temper of growing interreligious dialogue, and in the spirit of reconciliation, encountering Jesus as living history for Christians and Jews is both necessary and proper. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of the New Testament and Early Church who are seeking new ways of understanding Jesus in his religious and cultural milieu, as well Jewish and Christian theologians and thinkers who are concerned with contemporary Jewish and Christian relationships.
Author: Steven Fine
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004192530
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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"This volume is the product of the inaugural conference of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies which took place on May 11-12, 2008"--Preface.
Author: James L. KUGEL
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039769
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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From the creation and the tree of knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the promised land; James Kugel shows us how the earliest interpreters of the scriptures radically transformed the Bible.
Author: Rivka Ulmer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311041810X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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The present edition and translation of the rabbinic work Pesiqta Rabbati is a critical Hebrew edition, including a modern English translation on facing pages. Pesiqta Rabbati contains rabbinic homilies for Jewish holy days and special Sabbaths.
