The Lost Matriarch offers a unique response to the sparse and puzzling biblical treatment of the matriarch Leah. Although Leah is a major figure in the book of Genesis, the biblical text allows her only a single word of physical description and two lines of direct dialogue. The Bible tells us little about the effects of her lifelong struggles in an apparently loveless marriage to Jacob, the husband she shares with three other wives, including her beautiful younger sister, Rachel. Fortunately, tw...
The Kabbalah is a fascinating and ancient tradition which helps to explain ourselves, and our relationship with the world. For all those who enjoyed the author's previous book on the subject, Will Parfitt takes the reader onto the next level of understanding, beyond the elements. He explains the Kabbalistic approach to the tarot; healing and the angels, demons and sexuality; how to achieve stillness and inner peace, among many other stimulating subjects supremely relevant to our everyday lives....
An important reinterpretation of the Hebrew Bible as historiography, now available in paper.
Reading 4QMMT (Symposium Series. (Society of Biblical Literature), #2)
The Shambhala Guide to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism
by Perle Besserman
Jewish mystics from biblical times to the present have explored the hidden secrets of the Torah in quest of a single goal: to lose the self in the Infinite "No-thingness" (Ein Sof) and be at one with God. In language accessible to the layperson, this Shambhala Guide provides a detailed introduction to the complex world of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism. With an extensive background in meditation practice, Perle Besserman emphasizes Kabbalah's spiritual disciplines, grounded in righteous living, d...
Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how the Torah and trans lives can illuminate one another. Drawing on her own experience and lifelong reading practice, Ladin shows how the Torah, a collection of ancient texts that assume human beings are either male or female, speaks both to practical...
Written by two leaders of the Jewish Renewal movement, these interpretive stories address important issues such as spirituality, tyranny, and feminism.
The Hodayot (Thanksgiving Psalms): A Study Edition of 1qha
by Eileen M. Schuller
Proverbs 1-15 (Hermeneia: A Critical & Historical Commentary on the Bible)
by Bernd U. Schipper
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Personages of Earliest Christianity
by Arthur E Palumbo
The Nowhere Bible (Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR), #4)
by Frauke Uhlenbruch
The Bible contains passages that allow both scholars and believers to project their hopes and fears onto ever-changing empirical realities. By reading specific biblical passages as utopia and dystopia, this volume raises questions about reconstructing the past, the impact of wishful imagination on reality, and the hermeneutic implications of dealing with utopia - "good place" yet "no place" - as a method and a concept in biblical studies. A believer like William Bradford might approach a biblica...
Textual and Historical Studies in the Book of Jubilees (Harvard Semitic Monographs, #14)
by James C VanderKam