Tracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators, commentators, and scholars made the Bible a keystone of Jewish life in Germany, Israel and America. Levenson argues that German Jews created a religious Bible, Israeli Jews a national Bible, and American Jews an ethnic one. In each site, scholars wrestled...
While in contemporary culture we tend to resort to a single, if broadly defined, range of discourse for the results of systematic thought about public matters of the social order, this is not the case in Rabbinic Judaism. Judaism's authoritative documents set forth the entire structure of belief and system of behavior in two distinct modes of discourse, Halakhic and Aggadic, or broadly construed, statements of law and lore. Theology in Action shows how the Talmud of Babylonia (a.k.a., the Bavli)...
Principles of Talmudic Logic
by Michael Abraham, Dov M. Gabbay, and Uri Schild
In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law? untangles the classical and biblical roots of the Western idea of divine law and shows how early adherents to biblical tradition--Hellenistic Jewish writers such as Philo, the community at Qumran, Paul, and the talmudic rabbis--struggled to make sense of this conflicting...
How to Improve Your Mind is an engaging philosophical text by master Enlightenment thinker Baruch Spinoza. This edition includes exclusive commentary and biographical notes written by Philosophical Library s founding publisher, Dagobert D. Runes. Baruch Spinoza (1632 1677) is heralded as one of the most influential and radical philosophers of the Enlightenment. An expert on the Talmud and Jewish scriptures, Spinoza is known for his moral philosophy and his views on theology and ethics. He devote...
Tractate Qiddusin (Studia Judaica)
This volume concludes the edition, translation, and commentary of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud. The pentateuchal expression lqkh 'ssh "to take as wife" is more correctly translated either as "to acquire as wife" or "to select as wife". The Tractate Qiddusin deals with all aspects of acquisition as well as the permissible selections of wives and the consequences of illicit relations.
Koren Talmud Bavli V15f: Ketubot, Daf 90a-112b, Noeי Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
Bereshit (La Bible Hebraique, #1) (La Bilble Hebraique, #1)
by Zadoc Kahn
Harav Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik Zt"l - Yoreh Deah, Halachos of Niddah
by Rav Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik and Rav Hershel Schachter
The Talmud of Babylonia
The Mishnah, Social Perspectives Volume 2
by Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner
Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions. Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes...
Koren Talmud Bavli V10a: Ta'anit, Daf 2a-18b, Noeי Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
Becoming a Mensch is a "user's guide" to becoming a better person, taking readers through a process of personal growth by means of modern-day vignettes that draw upon the Talmud's ancient wisdom. By examining character traits such as "kindness and compassion," "self-mastery and self discipline," and "humility and flexibility," readers of any or no faith learn what it takes to become a "mensch" -- a decent and honorable human being. Readers are introduced to the greatest sages of the Talmudic era...