Denying recognition or even existence to certain others, while still tolerating diversity, stabilizes a political order; or does it? Revisiting this classical question of political theory, the book turns to the Talmud. That late ancient body of text and thought displays a new concept of the political, and thus a new take on the question of excluded others. Philosophy- and theology-driven approaches to the concept of the political have tacitly elided a concept of the political which the Talmud di...
Rabbi Moses (Studies in Judaism)
by Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner
Support for the Poor in the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture (Brown Judaic Studies)
by Roger Brooks
Koren Talmud Bavli V14d: Yevamot, Daf 53b-70a, Noeי Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
Schattenstein Edition Talmud Bavli Tractate Temurah (Schottenstein Edition Talmud Bavli - English Edition)
by Mesorah
Koren Talmud Bavli V10b: Ta'anit, Daf 18b-31a, Noeי Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
Approaches to Ancient Judaism, Volume IV (Approaches to Ancient Judaism)
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature - Scholar's Choice Edition
by Marcus Jastrow
ee (Studia Judaica)
The ninth volume of this edition, translation, and commentary of the Jerusalem Talmud contains two Tractates. The first Tractate, “Documents”, treats divorce law and principles of agency when written documents are required. Collateral topics are the rules for documents of manumission, those for sealed documents whose contents may be hidden from witnesses, the rules by which the divorced wife can collect the moneys due her, the requirement that both divorcer and divorcee be of sound mind, and the...
Few writers have crafted such a classic statement of the nature of and concepts within rabbinic theology as did Solomon Schechter. Aspects of Rabbinic Theology distills for the uninitiated the basic principles, concepts, and ideas of Judaism, particularly as they are found in the Talmud and Midrash. Noted Jewish author Louis Ginzberg could say of Schechter, "He showed the . . . special Jewish conception of God and the universe, the special Jewish interpretation of the Bible."Key aspects of Jewis...
Disempowered King (The Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies, #9) (Kogod Library of Judaic Studies)
by Yair Lorberbaum
Subordinated King studies the conception of kingship, and its status, powers and authority in Talmudic literature. The book deals with the conception of kingship against the background of the different approaches to kingship both in Biblical literature and in the political views prevalent in the Roman Empire. In the Bible one finds three (exclusive) approaches to kingship: rejection of the king as a legitimate political institution - since God is the (political) king; a version of royal theology...