Ma'aseh Book
Author : Moses Gaster
Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Moses Gaster
Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Exempla
ISBN :
Author : Michael D. Swartz
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9783161456794
Includes text of Maaseh merkavah in English translation.
Author : Brian Ogren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004330631
In The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought, Brian Ogren offers a deep analysis of late fifteenth century Italian Jewish thought concerning the creation of the world and the beginning of time. Ogren’s book is the very first to seriously juxtapose the thought of the great Jewish thinker Yohanan Alemanno, Alemanno’s famed Christian interlocutor, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the important Iberian exegete active in Italy, Isaac Abravanel, and Abravanel’s renowned philosopher son Judah, known as Leone Ebreo. By bringing these thinkers together, this book presents a new understanding of early modern uses of Jewish texts and hermeneutics. Ogren successfully demonstrates that the syntheses of philosophy and Kabbalah carried out by these four intellectuals in their quests to understand the beginning itself marked a new beginning in Western thought, characterized by simultaneous continuity and rupture.
Author : Maud Kozodoy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812247485
The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus explores late medieval Iberian Jewish culture through the figure of Profayt Duran, a rationalist Jewish scholar who was compelled during the riots of 1391 to become a Christian in name, and whose broad-ranging philosophical and scientific education was mustered in defense of his religious convictions.
Author : David L. Lieber
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780827608047
JPS is pleased to make available a new, more compact edition of the landmark publication, Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary. This book, a publication of the Conservative movement, was produced through a joint venture of the Rabbinical Assembly, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, and The Jewish Publication Society. This new, smaller edition is a convenient alternative to the standard hardcover edition and is ideal for personal study and travel. It contains all the material in the original, excerpt for the essays. The Bible text, translations, and commentaries as well as the blessings, artwork, maps, glossary and other reference tools for the worshiper and student of Torah reader are included. The sturdy, coated paper cover is designed to stand up well, even with heavy use.
Author : Moshe Halbertal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 2013-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1400848474
A comprehensive and accessible account of the life and thought of Judaism's most celebrated philosopher Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing how his philosophical sensibility and outlook informed his interpretation of Jewish tradition. Moshe Halbertal vividly describes Maimonides's childhood in Muslim Spain, his family's flight to North Africa to escape persecution, and their eventual resettling in Egypt. He draws on Maimonides's letters and the testimonies of his contemporaries, both Muslims and Jews, to offer new insights into his personality and the circumstances that shaped his thinking. Halbertal then turns to Maimonides's legal and philosophical work, analyzing his three great books—Commentary on the Mishnah, the Mishneh Torah, and the Guide of the Perplexed. He discusses Maimonides's battle against all attempts to personify God, his conviction that God's presence in the world is mediated through the natural order rather than through miracles, and his locating of philosophy and science at the summit of the religious life of Torah. Halbertal examines Maimonides's philosophical positions on fundamental questions such as the nature and limits of religious language, creation and nature, prophecy, providence, the problem of evil, and the meaning of the commandments. A stunning achievement, Maimonides offers an unparalleled look at the life and thought of this important Jewish philosopher, scholar, and theologian.
Author : Michael Strassfeld
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN :
A comprehensive guide to Jewish spiritual practices, with explanations based on Talmudic and Midrashic texts as well as Hasidic and mystical stories, includes a survey of daily prayers, Shabbat rituals, holidays, Torah study, Jewish meditation, and more.
Author : Bernard H. Mehlman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004331336
Medieval Midrash: The House for Inspired Innovation is the first book-length study of this under-examined genre of Jewish Literature. Mehlman and Limmer cover the history of scholarship of these curious texts and evaluate the origins, dating, and authors of Medieval Midrash. In addition to addressing such scholarly questions, Medieval Midrash illustrates its themes and judgments through the annotated translation of the six extant texts that revolve around the key figure of King Solomon. This book, whose underlying tropes speak to the continuing need for creative religious expression, will be of interest to scholars and non-academics alike.
Author : Moses Gaster
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Exempla
ISBN :
A collection of exempla, apologues and tales culled from Hebrew manuscripts and rare Hebrew books.