The book deals with the influence of the Kabbalah on the Halakhah, liturgy and ritual customs, and the reaction of the rabbinic authorities to this phenomenon. The book also investigates the extent to which the kabbalistic instructions were acc...
Study of medieval Jewish Messianism, analysing the two main messianic approaches, Apocalypticism and Naturalism. The author traces the tension between these two schools of thought through different periods of history and concludes that, at the t...
A collection of papers on the subject of Jewish names by internationally-known scholars, researching Jewish names in various communities from biblical to modern times. In Honor of Edwin D. Lawson
A collection of papers on the subject of Jewish names by internationally-known scholars, researching Jewish names in various communities from biblical to modern times.
A collection of papers on the subject of Jewish names by internationally-known scholars, researching Jewish names in various communities from biblical to modern times. These articles are based on lectures given at the first international confere...
A collection of papers on the subject of Jewish names by internationally-known scholars, researching Jewish names in various communities from biblical to modern times.
A Split Identity
The Conflict between the Sacred and the Secular in the Jewish World By Ella Belfer January 2004 Hardcover Danacode 110-20065 In Stock
The subject of this volume is the tension inherent in Judaism between the sacred and the secular. The sources of this tension are analysed, and its manifestations traced from its origins in the biblical tradition to the modern-day public arena. ...
This book deals with legal and social aspects of Ancient Near Eastern cultures, including biblical Eretz Israel. The author`s approach is multidisciplinary and humanistic, focusing on texts as a key to understanding the lives of the people who l...
Myths, folktales and Hebrew literature have been thoroughly researched in order to present the thesis that the duality in the nature of woman is not only inherent in human culture, but has had a dangerous influence on the whole concept of famil...