Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.

Demonstrates how conflict between a human adept as the divine warrior and an otherworldly antagonist plays a key role in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic accounts.

Demonstrates the impact of print culture on the spread of Jewish mysticism, focusing on Kabbalistic study guides by R. Yissakhar Baer of seventeenth-century Prague.

A dynamic dialogue of poetry and art that reimagines the ancient, biblical concept of sacrifice.

Situates a Hasidic master in the context of his time, demonstrating his formative influence on Jewish literary modernity.

Study of a fascinating medieval Jewish philosopher, focusing on his twin conceptions of history.

Traces the development of bal tashḥit, the Jewish prohibition against wastefulness and destruction, from its biblical origins to the contemporary environmental movement.

A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.

Demonstrates that Rabbi Shneur Zalman's teachings regarding time and history enabled Habad's growth into a mass Jewish movement.

A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.

A psychological study, based on extensive interview data, of Jewish adults who take on a devout lifestyle.

A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts.

Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.

Looks at the concept of Ultimate Reality in Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity.

Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics.

Explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts.

Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.

Discusses the two most important figures in early Jewish mythologies of evil, the fallen angels Azazel and Satanael.

An introduction to the Zohar, the crowning work of medieval Kabbalah. Includes original translations and analysis.

Explores rabbinic views of Ishmael, the biblical figure seen as the first Arab.

Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.

Presents parts of the Judaic tradition of wisdom, concentrating on the oral part of the Torah, represented by the documents of law and scriptural exegesis.

Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.

Explores the religious experience of Judaism through the perceptions and teachings of ordinary Jews and the creative elite.

Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.

A collection of lectures given at Queen’s University by academics in Judaic Studies.

Examines the notion of divine incarnations as a central element of the portrait of God that came into focus through the Judaism of the dual Torah.

Examines the history, philosophy and hermeneutics, and law and literature of formative Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Based on a close reading of New Testament passages, Choi counters the theses on repentance and restitution proposed by New Testament scholar E. P. Sanders.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

This book is a study of rabbinic legal interpretation (midrash) in Judaism's rabbinic, medieval, and modern periods. It shows how the rise of Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism in the modern period ...

Steven Schwarzschild—rabbi, socialist, pacifist, theologian, and philosopher—is both the last of the major medieval Jewish philosophers and the most modern. He is in the tradition of the Jewish thinking ...

This book presents important topics regarding the more mystical trend of Kabbalah—the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes the mystical union, the world of imagination, and concentration as a spiritual technique. ...

This book examines biblical and rabbinic law as a coherent, continuing legal tradition. It explains the relationship between religion and law and the interaction between law and morality. Abundant selections ...

The first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah.