This volume also explores the specific themes, concepts, and content that are most essential for interpreting these books.

In this arresting memoir about growing up in--and ultimately escaping from--a strict Hasidic community, Feldman reveals what life is like trapped within a religious sect that values silence and suffering over individual freedoms.

A special feature of this book is its many "Debating the Evidence" sections, where the reader becomes familiar with scholarly disputes concerning the interpretation of textual and archaeological evidence on a variety of topics and case ...

In this light, Martin Buber has been viewed as the Jewish counterpart to Paul Tillich. This is the original English translation, available in America only in this hardcover edition of I and Thou.

Retells much of the Old Testament story, but includes additional material not mentioned in the Bible. Also relies heavily on The Book of Enoch, which was, like this book, translated from the Ethiopic text.

David Carr rethinks both the methods and historical orientation points for research into the growth of the Hebrew Bible into its present form.

Latterly Jews became fully vested as part of America's white mainstream and gave up describing themselves in racial terms. "This is an outstanding book.

Written by the greatest Jewish thinker of the middle ages if not of all time, this title offers a profound and timeless statement of man's relation to himself, to God, and to society.

Amidst this gloom there appeared a brilliant luminary which sent forth rays of light and comfort: this was Moses Maimonides.

This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on the fallen angels.