Studies In The Meaning Of Judaism Jps Scholar Of Distinction Series

Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827609983

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Studies in the Meaning of Judaism (JPS Scholar of Distinction Series) by Eugene B. Borowitz Pdf

Noted educator, author, and speaker Eugene Borowitz delivers the fruits of his scholarship with grace in this new addition to the JPS Scholar of Distinction series. Gathered in this single volume are 33 essays covering the themes of modern Jewish theology, education, the history of Reform Judaism in America, Jewish law, ethics, and religious dialogue. This collection will appeal to a wide audience, including rabbis; scholars; and readers of religion, modern Jewish thought, and liturgy.

Author : Arnold J. Band
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827607620

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Studies in Modern Jewish Literature (JPS Scholar of Distinction Series) by Arnold J. Band Pdf

This outstanding volume of 26 essays represents a cross-section of the writings of Arnold Band on Jewish literature. Band, a renowned Jewish studies and humanities scholar, writes on such topics as: literature in historic context, interpretations of Hasidic tales and other traditional texts, Zionism, S.Y. Agnon and other important Israeli writers, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Jewish studies, and the Jewish community. Scholars and students of Jewish studies and literature -- particularly Jewish literature -- won't want to miss this remarkable collection.

Author : David Ellenson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827612143

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Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice by David Ellenson Pdf

Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the consistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime. These essays center on a description and examination of the complex push and pull between Jewish tradition and Western culture. Ellenson addresses gender equality, women’s rights, conversion, issues relating to who is a Jew, the future of the rabbinate, Jewish day schools, and other emerging trends in American Jewish life. As an outspoken advocate for a strong Israel that is faithful to the democratic and Jewish values that informed its founders, he also writes about religious tolerance and pluralism in the Jewish state. The former president of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, the primary seminary of the Reform movement, Ellenson is widely respected for his vision of advancing Jewish unity and of preparing leadership for a contemporary Judaism that balances tradition with the demands of a changing world. Scholars and students of Jewish religious thought, ethics, and modern Jewish history will welcome this erudite collection by one of today’s great Jewish leaders.

Author : Nahum M. Sarna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015050312944

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Studies in Biblical Interpretation by Nahum M. Sarna Pdf

A JPS Scholar of Distinction Title Nahum Sarna is one of the most regarded and well-known names in biblical academia. This collection contains 26 essays, spanning his career. Together they cover the Torah, the Prophets, the Writings, the Psalms, and biblical history.

Author : Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827609976

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Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism (JPS Scholar of Distinction Series) by Tikva Frymer-Kensky Pdf

Each of the 30 essays here delves into a topic that gives us much food for thought: the Bible as interpreted through ancient Near-Eastern creation myths, flood myths, and goddess myths; gender in the Bible; the feminist approach to Jewish law; comparative Jewish and Christian perspectives on the Hebrew Bible; biblical perspectives on ecology; creating a theology of healing; feminine God-talk. The volume concludes with the author's own original prayers in the form of poetic meditations on pregnancy and birthing. This book is unique, not only because it is the only volume in the JPS Scholar of Distinction series written by a woman, but also because Frymer-Kensky's personal and forthright voice resonates so clearly throughout each piece. Scholars and students of Bible, Jewish studies, and women's studies will surely find this to be a one-of-a kind collection.

Author : Arthur Green
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827612136

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The Heart of the Matter by Arthur Green Pdf

"Judaism, like all the great religions, has a strand within it that sees inward devotion as an opening of the human heart to God's presence. This voice is not always easy to hear in a tradition where so much attention is devoted to the how rather than the why of religious living. The devotional claim, certainly a key part of Judaism's biblical heritage, has reasserted itself in the teachings of individual mystics and in the emergence of religious movements over the long course of Jewish history. This volume represents Rabbi Arthur Green's own quest for such a Judaism, both as a scholar and as a contemporary seeker. This collection of essays brings together Green's scholarly writings, centered on the history of early Hasidism, and his highly personal approach to a rebirth of Jewish spirituality in our own day. In choosing to present them in this way, he asserts a claim that they are all of a piece. They represent one man's attempt to wade through history and text, language and symbol, an array of voices both past and present, while always focusing on the essential question "What does it mean to be a religious human being, and what does Judaism teach us about it?" This, the author considers to be the heart of the matter." -- Publisher's description.

Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780827615113

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Coming to Terms with America by Jonathan D. Sarna Pdf

Culling the finest thinking of renowned historian Jonathan D. Sarna, Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to today.

Author : John Teasdale
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462550494

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What Happens in Mindfulness by John Teasdale Pdf

Well known for applying mindfulness to the treatment of depression, pioneering researcher John Teasdale now explores the broader changes that people can experience through contemplative practices. What goes on in our minds when we are mindful? What does it mean to talk of mindfulness as a way of being? From a scientific perspective, how do core elements of contemplative traditions have their beneficial effects? Teasdale describes two types of knowing that human beings have evolved--conceptual and holistic–intuitive--and shows how mindfulness can achieve a healthier balance between them. He masterfully describes the mechanisms by which this shift in consciousness not only can reduce emotional suffering, but also can lead to greater joy and compassion and a transformed sense of self.

Author : Elliot N. Dorff
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780827619173

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Ethics at the Center by Elliot N. Dorff Pdf

Ethics at the Center culls the best of Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff’s pioneering thinking in Jewish ethics over nearly five decades. Dorff shows that our response to moral issues depends ultimately on our conceptions of the nature of human beings and God; how Jewish law, theology, prayer, history, and community should also define and motivate Jewish responses to moral issues; and how the honorable and divergent stances of Western philosophy and other religions about moral living shed light on Judaism’s distinctive standpoints. From there Dorff applies Judaism’s ethics to real life: abortion post–Roe v. Wade, sexual orientation and human dignity, avoiding harm in communication, playing violent or defamatory video games, modern war ethics, handling donations of ill-gotten gain after the fact. In conclusion he explores how Jewish family and community, holidays and rituals, theology, study, and law have moral import as well. Dorff’s personal introduction to each chapter reflects on why and when he wrote its contents, its continuing relevance, and if—and if so, how—he would now change what he wrote earlier. Readers will experience not only his evolving ethical thought but many facets of the person and the Jew that Dorff is today.

Author : Moshe Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015034291750

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Studies in the Bible and Jewish Thought by Moshe Greenberg Pdf

He regards the text with admiration for its enduring power, for the features that set it apart from the literatures of surrounding cultures, and for the riches discovered in it through the ages by "faith-full" interpreters.

Author : Jonathan Kaplan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199359349

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My Perfect One by Jonathan Kaplan Pdf

Most studies of the history of interpretation of Song of Songs focus on its interpretation from late antiquity to modernity. In My Perfect One, Jonathan Kaplan examines earlier rabbinic interpretation of this work by investigating an underappreciated collection of works of rabbinic literature from the first few centuries of the Common Era, known as the tannaitic midrashim. In a departure from earlier scholarship that too quickly classified rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs as allegorical, Kaplan advocates a more nuanced reading of the approach of the early sages, who read Song of Songs through a mode of typological interpretation concerned with the correspondence between Scripture and ideal events in Israel's history. Throughout the book Kaplan explores ways in which this portrayal helped shape a model vision of rabbinic piety as well as of an idealized vision of their beloved, God, in the wake of the destruction, dislocation, and loss the Jewish community experienced in the first two centuries of the Common Era. The archetypal and idealized language of Song of Songs provided, as Kaplan argues, a textual landscape in which to imagine an idyllic construction of Israel's relationship to her beloved, marked by mutual devotion and fidelity. Through this approach to Song of Songs, the Tannaim helped lay the foundations for later Jewish thought of a robust theology of intimacy in God's relationship with the Jewish people.

Author : Joshua O. Haberman
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827603533

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Philosopher of Revelation by Joshua O. Haberman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Jews
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115075355

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Jewish Book World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Prof. Leo Perdue
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426731990

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Biblical Theology by Prof. Leo Perdue Pdf

One of the thorniest problems in theological study is the relationship between biblical studies on the one hand, and constructive theology on the other. Theologians know that the Bible is the core source document for theological construction, and hence that they must be in conversation with the best in critical study of Scripture. For many biblical scholars, the point of what they do is to help the biblical text speak to today’s church and world, and hence they would do well to be in conversation with contemporary theology. Yet too often the two groups fail to engage each other’s work in significant and productive ways. The purpose of the Library of Biblical Theology, and this introductory volume to it, is to bring the worlds of biblical scholarship and constructive theology together. It will do so by reviving biblical theology as a discipline that describes the faith of the biblical periods on the one hand, and on the other hand articulates normative understandings of modern faith and practice. In this volume the authors begin by providing an overview of the history and possible future of biblical theology. They introduce biblical theology as a fundamentally contrastive discipline, one that is neither dogmatic theology (seeking to explain the official teachings of a particular Christian tradition), nor is it a purely historical approach to Scripture, eschewing questions of the Bible’s contemporary message and meaning. Rather, biblical theology takes seriously both the need to understand the message of Scripture in its particular historical context, and the need to address that message to questions that confront contemporary human life.

Author : Solomon Schechter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Jews
ISBN : OCLC:670204654

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Studies in Judaism by Solomon Schechter Pdf