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Rabbi Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok presents the important texts which underpin Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, providing supporting explanations to help readers unfamiliar with the subject.

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An history of Jewish religion and philosophy, its traditions and practices, that is illustrated with over 500 photographs and paintings. It highlights biblical teaching and traces its development across the centuries from earliest and rabbinic times onwards. It also covers teachings about rites of passage including marriage, bar and bat mitzvahs.

An updated edition of this best-selling introduction to the conflict.With coverage of all the recent events, the new edition of this best-selling book gives a thorough and accessible account of the history behind the Palestine-Israeli conflict, its roots, and the possibilities for the future. New material outlines recent developments, while an updated conclusion consists of a direct debate between the two authors, which raises many issues, yet...

An introduction to Jewish worship, festivals, home ceremonies and rites of passage, beautifully illustrated throughout.

In all three Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, marriage is part of God's plan for humanity, as illustrated in the Hebrew Scriptures, the New Testament, and the Koran as well as the religious literature of these three traditions. It is viewed as a sacred bond as well as a means to personal fulfilment. It is more than a legal contract, rather an institution with cosmic significance, legitimized through divine authority. In Judai...

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Why do Christians, Muslims and Jews not get on, since they all stem from one man, Abraham?

A concise account of Judaism from ancient, rabbinic and medieval times to the present day.

Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2, 000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Levinas, Judith Plaskow, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin. Also including fully updated guides to further reading on figures from the middle ages through to the...

Presents a series of lectures given in Canterbury Cathedral Library in late 1990 and early 1991. People delivering the lectures include the Rt. Hon. Enoch Powell, Prof. Keith Ward and Rabbi Julia Neuberger.

Today the Islamic faith has exploded on the contemporary scene. On television and in newspapers Islam is depicted as playing a major role in world events. In this illuminating volume distinguished Muslim, Christian and Jewish writers explore the nature of the Islamic religion and its impact on a pluralistic society. In diverse ways they present a new and challenging vision of dialogue between the three monotheistic faiths in the modern world.

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Today the Islamic faith has exploded on the contemporary scene. On television and in newspapers Islam is depicted as playing a major role in world events. In this illuminating volume distinguished Muslim, Christian and Jewish writers explore the nature of the Islamic religion and its impact on a pluralistic society. In diverse ways they present a new and challenging vision of dialogue between the three monotheistic faiths in the modern world.

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With Islamist violence rising as groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS make their mark across the globe, discussions about terror, violence, and religion have never been more important.'Terror and Religion: An interfaith dialogue' brings together leading academics in a dialogue that engages with the most pressing questions of our time.

Exploration of the origins and development of Zionism, illustrating the theory and history of the Zionist movement and the creation of the state of Israel.

Beginning with the earliest philosopher of the Middle Ages, Saadiah ben Joseph al-Fayyumi, this work surveys the writings of such figures as Solomon ben Joseph ibn Gabirol, Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda, Abraham ben david Halevi ibn Daud, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, Gersonides, Hasdai Crescas, Simon ben Zemah Duran, Joseph Albo, Isaac Arama, and Isaac Abrabanel. Throughout an attempt is made to place these thinkers in an historical context a...

Louis Jacobs has made a formidable contribution to Jewish scholarship over the last 40 years. In addition he has inspired a generation of students of Judaica as well as members of his own congregation at the New London Synagogue. The contributors to this volume in his honour include a wide range of distinguished scholars. Beginning with Jacob Neusner's essay on the transformation of the Dual Torah in the first four centuries CE, the volume ran...

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