Judaism Books

New and Published Books

1. Modern Orthodoxies

   Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century

   By Lisa Mulman

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This study introduces a genuine, provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period, including Henry Roth, Amedeo Modigliani, James Joyce, and Art Spiegelman, revealing a significant engagement with the...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue

   Edited by Steven Fine

   Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue explores the ways in which divergent ethnic, national and religious communities interacted with one another within the synagogue in the Greco-Roman period. It presents new perspectives regarding the development of the synagogue and its...

   Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture Volume 1

   Fourteen Exploratory Essays

   Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Arye Edrei, Neil S. Hecht

   This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal landscape. In other words, rather than taking a...

   Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture Volume 2

   Fourteen Exploratory Essays

   Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Arye Edrei, Neil S. Hecht

   This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal landscape. In other words, rather than taking a...

   Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria

   A Study in the Narrative of the 'Letter of Aristeas'

   By Sylvie Honigman

   The Letter of Aristeas tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Long accepted as a straightforward historical account of a cultural enterprise in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the Letter nevertheless poses serious...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. War and Peace in Jewish Tradition

   From the Biblical World to the Present

   Edited by Yigal Levin, Amnon Shapira

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   The transition between the reality of war and a hope for peace has accompanied the Jewish people since biblical times. However, the ways in which both concepts are understood have changed many times over the ages, and both have different implications for an independent nation in its own land than...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
7. Spirituality in the Modern World

   Within Religious Tradition and Beyond

   Edited by Paul Heelas

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   It would not be an exaggeration to say that during the last century, most especially during and since the 1960s, the language of spirituality has become one of the most significant ways in which the sacred has come to be understood and judged in the West, and, increasingly, elsewhere. Whether it is...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
8. Religion, Law and Tradition

   Comparative Studies in Religious Law

   By Andrew Huxley

   This book brings together two scholarly traditions: experts in Roman, Jewish and Islamic law, an area where scholars tend to be familiar with work in each area, and experts in the legal traditions of South and East Asia, which have tended to be less interdisciplinary. The resulting mix produces new...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
9. The Jewish Law Annual Volume 19

   Edited by Berachyahu Lifshitz

   Series: Jewish Law Annual

   Volume 19 of The Jewish Law Annual is a festschrift in honor of Professor Neil S. Hecht. It contains thirteen articles, ten in English and three in Hebrew. Several articles are jurisprudential in nature, focusing on analysis of halakhic institutions and concepts. Elisha Ancselovits discusses the...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
10. Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy

    750-500 BCE

    By David Aberbach

    Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy is a radically new interpretation of prophetic poetry. Using more than thirty new translations from the Hebrew Bible, it shows that this poetry is inseparable from imperialism, that each of the three major waves of biblical prophecy which have survived in the Old...

    Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge