Hardback – 2019-04-01
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Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East
This volume challenges widespread conceptions of central and eastern European countries as merely countries of origin, shedding light on the experience of immigration and the establishment of refugee regimes at different stages in the history of the region. It assembles a number of case studies on…
Hardback – 2019-03-25
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History
This anthology brings together eight insights into the life of Jews in Southeast Europe through political, social and cultural lenses. Even though the Holocaust put an end to many communities in the region, this book chronicles how some Holocaust survivors nevertheless tried to restore their…
Hardback – 2019-03-04
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Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism explores the often incommensurable and irreconcilable beliefs and understandings of sexuality and gender in the Orthodox Jewish community from psychoanalytic, rabbinic, feminist and queer perspectives. The book explores how…
Paperback – 2019-02-26
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Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
A common objective of saint veneration in all three Abrahamic religions is the recovery and perpetuation of the collective memory of the saint. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all yield intriguing similarities and differences in their respective conceptions of sanctity. This edited collection…
Hardback – 2019-01-15
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Sanctity in Global Perspective
Addressed to Jews and non-Jews alike, though aware that these two reader groups were likelyn to approach the book with very different presuppositions, Daiches sets out to define Judaism in relation to philosophy, to explain Kant’s philosophy through the superiority of halakhah, defend a…
Paperback – 2018-12-31
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Routledge Revivals
Throughout the Hebrew Bible, strangers are indispensable to the formation of a collective Israelite identity. Encounters between the Israelites and their neighbors are among the most urgent matters explored in biblical narratives, yet relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to them.…
Paperback – 2018-12-10
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Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible looks at some of the Bible’s most hostile and violent anti-foreigner texts and raises critical questions about how students of the Bible and ancient Near East should grapple with "ethnicity" and "foreignness" conceptually, hermeneutically and…
Hardback – 2018-11-30
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Routledge Studies in the Biblical World
Muslim and Jew: Origins, Growth, Resentment seeks to show how and why Islam and Judaism have been involved in political and theological self-definitions using the other since the seventh century. This short volume provides a historical and comparative survey of how each religion has thought about…
Hardback – 2018-11-26
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Routledge Focus on Religion
Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring them for its own audience. Only more recently, however, has come the realization that Greek culture is also a prominent source of…
Hardback – 2018-11-21
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse explores for the first time the extent to which the unusual religious diversity and tolerance of the Dutch Republic affected how its residents regarded Jews and Muslims. Analyzing an array of vernacular publications, this book reveals how Dutch…
Paperback – 2018-11-07
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Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human body. However, much of the focus of this medical research has been on the physical, often reducing the human being to a biological machine to be examined, understood, and…
Hardback – 2018-11-06
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Routledge Studies in Religion