Catálogo de libros: Judaísmo

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  • Jewish Lives and Jewish Education in the UK
    Alex Pomson / Helena Miller
    The book explores the evolving relationships between parents and children, the significance of the Jewish school in their lives, how young people think about religious practices, and their lives in the UK. It addresses issues related to families and schooling and pays special attention to the transitions to secondary school and then to life opportunities in the following years....
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    196,20 €

  • The Jewish Family in Global Perspective
    Harriet Hartman
    This book contains a collection of chapters about the Jewish family across different parts of the world, with contributions representing Africa (Ivory Coast and Ethiopia), Latin America, Australia, Europe (Germany), Russia, Israel, Canada, Indian families in Canada, and a comparative chapter of Ba’a lot Teshuva in the US and Argentina. Where much existing research and literatur...
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    196,66 €

  • Mysteries of Jerusalem
    David Petault
    Unlock the secrets of one of the world’s most enigmatic cities with 'Mysteries of Jerusalem: 33 Hidden Stories from a Sacred City.' In this mesmerizing collection, author David G. Petault unveils the lesser-known, intriguing tales that make Jerusalem a place of perpetual wonder and fascination. Journey through the ages and discover the profound and often surprising narratives t...
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    14,20 €

  • A God Like No Other
    David A Brondos
    For centuries, scholars and interpreters of the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament have read those Scriptures as if they spoke of a God whose desires, concerns, and interests were essentially no different than those of the other gods of antiquity known to us. Like those gods, what the God of Israel supposedly sought above all else was the honor, worship, and obedience of human ...
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    30,10 €

  • A God Like No Other
    David A. Brondos
    For centuries, scholars and interpreters of the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament have read those Scriptures as if they spoke of a God whose desires, concerns, and interests were essentially no different than those of the other gods of antiquity known to us. Like those gods, what the God of Israel supposedly sought above all else was the honor, worship, and obedience of human ...
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    42,23 €

  • Kol Yaakov
    Jerome H. Blass
    A pulpit rabbi wears many hats: preacher, teacher, counselor, and civic leader, to name a few. These roles speak to what a person does. Often, but not always, they also reflect who a person is.The Bible describes Jacob (Yaakov) as an 'ish tam' - rendered by Onkelos in Aramaic as 'g’var sh’lim,' a wholesome man. Sheleimus, wholeness, in classic rabbinic thought, encompasses all ...
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    23,10 €

  • The Chai-Light Zone
    David DeAngelo / Stephen Stern / Steven Gimbel
    The Twilight Zone is remembered as a science fiction television series that reflected the uneasiness of Cold War America. Its creator, Rod Serling, was a secular Jew who fought in World War II and returned stateside to see moral problems at home, like racism and the potential for technology to rob us of our humanity. The Twilight Zone was Serling’s attempt to influence mainstre...
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    17,92 €

  • The Chai-Light Zone
    David DeAngelo / Stephen Stern / Steven Gimbel
    The Twilight Zone is remembered as a science fiction television series that reflected the uneasiness of Cold War America. Its creator, Rod Serling, was a secular Jew who fought in World War II and returned stateside to see moral problems at home, like racism and the potential for technology to rob us of our humanity. The Twilight Zone was Serling’s attempt to influence mainstre...
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    30,40 €

  • Music’s Making
    Michael Cherlin
    A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.As a work of musical theory, or meta-theory, Music’s Making draws extensively on work done in philosophy and literary criticism in addition to the scholarship of musicologists and music theorists. Music’s Making is divided into two large parts. The first half d...
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    126,76 €

  • The Messianic Idea in Israel
    Joseph Klausner / W. F. Stinespring
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    71,67 €

  • The Messianic Idea in Israel
    Joseph Klausner / W. F. Stinespring
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    49,96 €

  • Modern Canaanites; Or, The Enemies of Jesus Christ
    Jonathan Elsworth Perkins
    'Some people have difficulty in sensing the relationship of the Canaanites to Cain. This trouble disappears when we think of Cain as a demonized Individual, and the Canaanites as demon-possessed peoples. True, Cain as an individual, and the Canaanites as a collection of races were on opposite sides of the flood, but evil spirits were not, and can not be drowned in a flood. Cai...
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    17,23 €

  • Chrysalis Summer
    Suzanne Brody
    and I found//the cry of my soul//buried//in ancient text//opened//like comforting arms// when I needed it most. In her sixth volume of poetry, Rabbi Suzanne Brody embarks on a journey of transformation and self-actualization. Drawing from her experience as Jewish educator, time spent in Jerusalem, and her love for text study Brody has crafted a delicate poetic cycle narrating o...
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    19,06 €

  • The Qumran Con
    Raphael Golb
    Why did Professor Norman Golb of the Oriental Institute need to be silenced? Why did a small clique monopolize access and publication rights to the Dead Sea Scrolls for more than four decades? Why does the truth matter about where the scrolls came from?In this documented memoir, Raphael Golb exposes the inside story of the Dead Sea Scrolls controversy and its scandals. He descr...
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    28,33 €

  • The Forgotten 1918 Pandemic
    Arthur L. Finkle
    The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 infected 33% of the world’s population. There were no effective treatments and no widespread efforts to prevent the spread. There are some comparisons to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Spanish flu was the name given to a form of influenza flu caused by an H1N1 virus that started in some type of bird avian origin. The Spanish flu was a pandemic - a n...
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    30,74 €

  • Century of Health Progress
    Arthur L. Finkle
    In the past one hundred years, a medical miracle occurred in the United States. Death in Childhood Is No Longer Expected. Health progress in the 20th century resulted from the conquest of infectious diseases, often by environmental means or through preventive or therapeutic measures such as vaccines and antibiotics. In addition, sanitation and hygiene greatly assisted age longe...
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    35,22 €

  • Philo’s Influence on Valentinian Tradition
    Risto Auvinen
    In this book Risto Auvinen reevalutes the relationship between the exegetical and philosophical traditions found in the works of Philo and those of the Valentinian gnostic tradition, with a particular focus on the latter half of the second century, Valentinianism’s formative years. Auvinen asserts that the number of parallels between Philonic and Valentinian sources reveals a r...
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    57,58 €

  • How Precious the Ground on Which We Stand
    Sheldon Lewis
    'What does Judaism have to say about humanity’s most pressing crisis? Rabbi Shelly Lewis has written an engaging, scholarly, and inspiring book about how Jewish tradition should inform our personal response to climate change: required reading for anyone who cares about the future of Creation.'(Prof. Alon Tal, former chair of Knesset subcommittee on the Environment & Climate)'Ou...
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    19,02 €

  • Confessions of a Contemplative Crossing Guard
    Robert J. Eisen
    This book is intended to help manage the messiness of adulthood. Serving as a crossing guard at a local elementary school, the author found himself moved and inspired by the experiences and encounters that greeted him each and every day. This book is a record of his reflections on those moments and how they led him to a deeper understanding of the concise ambiguity of what it m...
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    25,91 €

  • Confessions of a Contemplative Crossing Guard
    Robert J. Eisen
    This book is intended to help manage the messiness of adulthood. Serving as a crossing guard at a local elementary school, the author found himself moved and inspired by the experiences and encounters that greeted him each and every day. This book is a record of his reflections on those moments and how they led him to a deeper understanding of the concise ambiguity of what it m...
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    13,23 €

  • Journeys of Life
    Trained as a cultural historian, Thomas R. Cole is one of the most influential scholars of his generation, with his work moving beyond and impacting many other fields and disciplines. His work includes The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Cole also published No Color Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and t...
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    42,66 €

  • Journeys of Life
    Trained as a cultural historian, Thomas R. Cole is one of the most influential scholars of his generation, with his work moving beyond and impacting many other fields and disciplines. His work includes The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Cole also published No Color Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and t...
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    30,18 €

  • The Dybbuk
    Morris M. Faierstein
    A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.The Dybbuk is the first comprehensive study of the historical and kabbalistic sources of the dybbuk phenomenon, from the first recorded case of dybbuk possession in Safed in 1571 onward. Dybbuk possession differs from possession by demons or Satan. Its origin is in t...
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    127,06 €

  • Israel/Palestine in World Religions
    S. Ilan Troen
    The struggle over Israel/Palestine is not just another contest by competing nationalisms or an instance of geopolitical competition. It is also about control of sacred territory that involves local Jews, Muslims, and Christians as well as worldwide faith communities, each with their own interests and stake in what transpires. This balanced introduction to a complex subject pres...
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    47,95 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice
    Oliver Leaman
    Ritual and practice are some of the most defining features of religion, linked with its central beliefs. Discussing the wide range of Jewish ritual and practice, this volume provides a contemporary guide to this significant aspect of religious life and experience. ...
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    86,72 €

  • Morality, Violence, and Ritual Circumcision
    Na’ama Carlin
    Departing from both the ordinary defences and criticisms that surround the practice of Jewish ritual of circumcision, this book offers a new way of thinking about violence, drawing on the thought of Derrida and Sofsky to explain circumcision as a form of generative or productive violence that is inherent in the making of bodies. ...
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    73,52 €

  • Early Israel
    Alex Shalom Kohav
    Early Israel offers the most sweeping reinterpretation of the Pentateuch since the nineteenth-century Documentary Hypothesis. ...
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    72,47 €

  • The Mystical Glory of Sabbath
    Matityahu Glazerson
    'The Mystical Glory of Sabbath' delves into the profound spiritual significance of the Sabbath through the lens of Hebrew letters and Kabbalistic teachings. This book uncovers the hidden meanings and divine connections that transform the Sabbath into a time of deep mystical experience and spiritual renewal. ...
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    8,66 €

  • Traces
    Diane Elliot
    This book spans a lifetime of wonder and passion, paying close attention to the inside and outside. Filled with blessing and universal Jewish wisdom, it reflects a profound respect for life, the inner life, and the life of the planet, and a willingness to meet the mystery of death with courage. Deep and rich! --Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg, author of Let Us All Breathe Together ...
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    33,84 €

  • Beloved David-Advisor, Man of Understanding, and Writer
    This volume brings together the latest scholarship on Jewish literary products and the ways in which they can be interpreted from three different perspectives. In part 1, contributors consider texts as literature, as cultural products, and as historical documents to demonstrate the many ways that early Jewish, rabbinic, and modern secular Jewish literary works make meaning and ...
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    89,12 €


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