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Author : Lee Walzer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Gays
ISBN : 9780231113953
Walzer explores how, within a decade, Israel has evolved from a society that marginalized homosexuals to one that offers some of the most extensive legal protections in the world.
Author : Caryn S. Aviv,David Shneer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814705148
For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final destination. In New Jews, Caryn Aviv and David Shneer provocatively argue that there is a new generation of Jews who don't consider themselves to be eternally wandering, forever outsiders within their communities and seeking to one day find their homeland. Instead, these New Jews are at home, whether it be in Buenos Aires, San Francisco or Berlin, and are rooted within communities of their own choosing. Aviv and Shneer argue that Jews have come to the end of their diaspora; wandering no more, today's Jews are settled. In this wide-ranging book, the authors take us around the world, to Moscow, Jerusalem, New York and Los Angeles, among other places, and find vibrant, dynamic Jewish communities where Jewish identity is increasingly flexible and inclusive. New Jews offers a compelling portrait of Jewish life today.
Author : Matthew S Crane
Publisher : Matthew S Crane
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781636252605
Of all the perplexing mysteries in this world, none have endured longer or have captured the imaginations of men more than the mysterious fate of the Garden of Eden. What ever happened to man’s first home? What ever became of the Tree of Life and its awful counterpart, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? Is the Bible silent on this subject, or have we simply missed something? Eden’s Fate shines new light upon this mystery by closely examining the Biblical record and promoting a literal interpretation of the events, people, and places recorded in Genesis chapters 1-3. Herein you will learn what Eden really was, what really happened in the misty dawn of mankind’s history, and most of all you will discover the truth about Eden’s fate.
Author : Raz Yosef
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813533767
Zionism was not only a political and ideological program but also a sexual one. The liberation of Jews and creation of a new nation were closely intertwined with a longing for the redemption and normalization of the Jewish male body. That body had to be rescued from anti-Semitic, scientific-medical discourse associating it with disease, madness, degeneracy, sexual perversity, and femininityeven with homosexuality. The Zionist movement was intent on transforming the very nature of European Jewish masculinity as it had existed in the diaspora. Zionist/Israeli films expressed this desire through visual and narrative tropes, enforcing the image of the hypermasculine, colonialist-explorer and militaristic nation-builder, an image dependent on the homophobic repudiation of the "feminine" within men. The creation of a new heterosexual Jewish man was further intertwined with attitudes on the breeding of children, bodily hygiene, racial improvement, and Orientalist perspectiveswhich associated the East, and especially Eastern bodies, with unsanitary practices, plagues, disease, and sexual perversity. By stigmatizing Israels Eastern populations as agents of death and degeneration, Zionism created internal biologized enemies, against whom the Zionist society had to defend itself. In the name of securing the life and reproduction of the new Ashkenazi Jewry, Israeli society discriminated against both its internal enemies, the Palestinians, and its own citizens, the Mizrahim (Oriental Jews). Yosefs critique of the construction of masculinities and queerness in Israeli cinema and culture also serves as a model for the investigation of the role of male sexuality within national culture in general.
Author : Raz Yosef
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136789250
The last decade has marked the growing visibility and worldwide interest in Israeli cinema. Films such as Walk on Water, Or, My Treasure, Beaufort and Waltz with Bashir have been commercially and critically successful both in Europe and the United States and have won a number of prestigious international awards. This book examines for the first time the new ideological and aesthetic trends in contemporary Israeli cinema. More specifically, it critically explores the complex and crucial role of Israeli cinema in remembering and restaging traumas and losses that were denied entry into the shared national past. One of the most striking phenomena in contemporary Israeli cinema is the number and scope of films dealing with past traumatic events – events that were repressed or insufficiently mourned, such as the memory of the Holocaust, traumas from wars and terrorist attacks, and the losses entailed by the experience of immigration. Current Israeli cinema exposes and highlights a radical discontinuity between history and memory. Traumatic events from Israeli society’s past are represented as the private memory of distinct social groups – soldiers, immigrants, women, queers – and not as collective memory, as a lived and practiced tradition that conditions Israeli society. This detachment from national collective memory pulls the films into a world marked by a persistent blurring of the historical context and by private and subjective impressions – a timeless world of dreams, hallucinations and myths. These groups feel duty-bound to remember the past, recasting repressed memories through the cinema in order to return and to give meaning to their identity.
Author : Benjamin Wills Newton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1246 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
ISBN : OXFORD:600090652
Author : Drew N. Grumbles
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666708059
How do we make sense of Ezekiel 40–48? Ezekiel’s temple vision has long mystified Bible readers and scholars. Is this a temple that is going to be built in the future? Or is this merely symbolic? Why so many details? Is there any relevance to this section of the Old Testament at all? This book addresses these important questions, showing how Ezekiel’s temple is more than just symbolic. Yet its ultimate fulfillment is not in any physical building, but, according to the New Testament, in Jesus and the new heavens and new earth. Not only will this book illuminate Ezekiel 40–48 for you, it will also help you understand important issues of interpretation in our day, such as typology, the role of the temple in biblical theology, and the New Testament use of the Old Testament. You will learn that yes, in fact, Ezekiel 40–48 is very relevant to the Bible’s storyline.
Author : Adele Berlin
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664229740
In this accessible volume, Adele Berlin explicates the five poems of Lamentations and builds a convincing case for Lamentations' immense power to address violence and grief. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.
Author : Stephen Geller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317799009
Sacred Enigmas assesses the religious and intellectual significance of the Hebrew Bible both as a document of its time and as an important step in the development of thought. It presents the major aspects of biblical religion through detailed literary analyses of key texts, presented in English translation to make them accessible to the general reader as well as scholars.
Author : Natan Levy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003804505
This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world’s first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium. The initial 11 chapters of Genesis are often considered discordant and fragmentary, despite being a story of beginnings within the context of the Bible. Readers discover how these formative chapters cohere as a cross-generational account of peoples grappling with the hegemonic spread of domesticated grain production and the concomitant rise of the pristine states of Mesopotamia. The book reveals how key episodes from the Genesis narrative reflect major societal revolutions of the Neolithic period in Mesopotamia through a three-fold hermeneutical method: literary analysis of the Bible and contemporary cuneiform texts; modern scholarship from archaeological, anthropological, ecological, and historical sources; and relevant exegesis from the Second Temple and rabbinical era. These three strands entwine to recount a generally sequential story of the earliest archaic states as narrated by non-elites at the margins of these emerging state spaces. The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1–11 provides a fascinating reading of the first 11 chapters of Genesis, appealing to students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and the Near East, as well as those working on ecological injustice from a religious vantage point.
Author : Susanne Luther,Pieter B. Hartog,Clare E. Wilde
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110717488
Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel as a literary topic in Greek and Roman writing. Scholars of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been rethinking long-familiar pilgrimage practices in new interdisciplinary contexts. This volume contributes to this flourishing field of study in two ways. First, the focus of its contributions is on experiences of travel. Our main question is: How did travelers in the ancient world experience and make sense of their journeys, real or imaginary, and of the places they visited? Second, by treating Jewish, Christian, and Islamic experiences together, this volume develops a longue durée perspective on the ways in which travel experiences across these three traditions resembled each other. By focusing on "experiences of travel," we hope to foster interaction between the study of ancient travel in the humanities and that of broader human experience in the social sciences.
Author : Benjamin Wills Newton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Bible
ISBN : NYPL:33433081640249
Author : Heidi Szpek
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780595256198
In this collection more than twenty student essays and papers are brought together to celebrate the legacy of the Hebrew Bible. Within such diverse disciplines as art, literature, philosophical thought, gender studies, prophecy, the nature of God, mysticism, and the unimaginable domains of the American Frontier and The Jerry Springer Show, the students of Central Washington University have revealed that the sacred literature of the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament in Christian tradition, has not only imparted its wisdom on the western world of past centuries, but is still a vibrant source of inspiration and knowledge speaking to those within contemporary society.
Author : Rudolph A. Whyte
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493148509
The book comprise twenty chapters that encompass direct words from God, open visions and deep revelation into the will, plan, origin and the destiny of humanity. My original intention was to use audio video format to dramatize the stories and scenes of my encounters. Nonetheless, at the urgency of the Spirit's behest, I write expediently. Chapters herein, answer mystical questions of Christians, believers and seekers of the truth, while bearing due veneration to the only wise God, the Creator; to further ascertain truths: of redemption, the City of Heavens, the realism and damnation of hell with the Lake of Fire.
Author : William Stone
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385207608
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.