Religion: Judaism

Edited by Berachyahu Lifshitz

Volume 22 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1- 21 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in Jewish law.…

Hardback – 2018-10-15 
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Jewish Law Annual

By Yoav Peled, Horit Herman Peled

During Israel's military operation in Gaza in the summer of 2014 the commanding officer of the Givati infantry brigade, Col. Ofer Vinter, called upon his troops to fight "the terrorists who defame the God of Israel". This unprecedented call for religious war by a senior IDF commander caused an…

Hardback – 2018-09-01 
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Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

Edited by Michael Satlow

Judaism and the Economy is an edited collection of sixty-nine Jewish texts relating to economic issues such as wealth, poverty, inequality, charity, and the charging of interest. The texts come from antiquity to the present and come from many genres. Primarily fresh translations into English from…

Hardback – 2018-08-31 
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Edited by Alexandra Cuffel, Ana Echevarria, Georgios T. Halkias

The ambiguity concerning the interpretation of the ‘physical body’ in religious thought is not peculiar to any given religion, but is discernible in the scriptures, practices, and disciplines in most of the world’s major religious traditions. This book seeks to address the nuances of difference…

Hardback – 2018-07-30 
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Routledge Studies in Religion

Edited by John J. Fitzgerald, Ashley John Moyse

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 – 2018-07-15 
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Routledge Studies in Religion

Edited by Maria Diemling, Larry Ray

The drawing of boundaries has always been a key part of the Jewish tradition and has served to maintain a distinctive Jewish identity. At the same time, these boundaries have consistently been subject to negotiation, transgression and contestation. The increasing fragmentation of Judaism into…

Paperback – 2018-06-30 
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Routledge Jewish Studies Series

Edited by Willis J. Jenkins, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology provides the most comprehensive and…

Paperback – 2018-06-22 
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Routledge International Handbooks

By Keith W. Whitelam

This volume is part of the Changing Perspectives sub-series, which is constituted by anthologies of articles by world-renowned biblical scholars and historians that have made an impact on the field and changed its course during the last decades. This volume offers a collection of seminal essays by…

Hardback – 2018-06-18 
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Copenhagen International Seminar

Edited by A.J. Berkovitz, Mark Letteney

A core feature of the historian’s task entails the unmasking of the systems of power that underlie our sources. A historian must not only analyze the content and context of ancient sources, but also the structures of power, authority, and political contingency that account for their transmission,…

Hardback – 2018-06-07 
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

By Matthijs den Dulk

Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho is the oldest preserved literary dialogue between a Jew and a Christian and a key text for understanding the development of early Judaism and Christianity. In Between Jews and Heretics, Matthijs den Dulk argues that whereas scholarship has routinely cast this…

Hardback – 2018-05-16 
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Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World

By Gretel Van Wieren

Although the religious and ethical consideration of food and eating is not a new phenomenon, the debate about food and eating today is distinctly different from most of what has preceded it in the history of Western culture. Yet the field of environmental ethics, especially religious approaches to…

Paperback – 2018-04-27 
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Routledge Environmental Humanities

By Emanuel de Kadt

In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in religion and religious issues. Some have linked this to a neo-liberal form of individualism, while others noted that secularism has left people bereft of a humanly necessary link with the transcendent. The importance of identity issues has…

Hardback – 2018-01-23
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Routledge Studies in Religion