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Paperback. Zohar, or 'brilliant light,' is the central text of Kabbalah. In Jewish mystical tradition, it is the meeting of midrash (storytelling that expands on events in the Bible) and myth. This selection offers translations of eight of the well developed narratives in the Zohar along with notes and detailed commentary. Translator(s): Wineman, Aryeh. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 257.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- New Pbk. Ed
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691058337
- ISBN
- 9780691058337
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.36
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Paperback. Looks at what it means for new generations to read and interpret ancient religious texts. This book offers a postmodern reading of the "Talmud", one of the first of its kind. It discusses spirituality and religious practice with such concepts as deconstruction, intertextuality, undecidability, multiple voicing, and eroticism in the "Talmud". Translator(s): Brown, Llewellyn. Num Pages: 272 pages, 28 halftones 2 figs. 1 map 2 tables. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- n Second printing
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691059204
- ISBN
- 9780691059204
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€ 55.24€ 43.11
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Paperback. Investigates the origins of a female manifestation of God in Jewish mysticism. Examining Judaic history from the biblical Wisdom tradition to the Middle Ages, this work finds some precedents for the Kabbalah's feminine divinity. Series: Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 halftones. 1 line illus. BIC Classification: HRAB1; HRJ; HRLK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691119809
- ISBN
- 9780691119809
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.25
€ 45.99
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Hardback. Begins by asking how a traditional Jew can participate politically and socially and in good faith in a modern democratic society, and ends by proposing a broad, inclusive notion of secularity. It shows how social contracts emerged, rooted in biblical notions of covenant, and how they developed in the rabbinic, medieval, and modern periods. Series: New Forum Books. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLP5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691122106
- ISBN
- 9780691122106
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Condition: New
€ 80.55€ 61.41
€ 80.55
€ 61.41
Hardback. Explores the issue of same-sex marriage through a range of biblical, historical, liturgical, and theological evidence. From David's love for Jonathan through the singleness of Jesus and Paul to the all-male heaven of John's Apocalypse, this title addresses pertinent passages in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Editor(s): Jordan, Mark D. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCX6; HRJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123462
- ISBN
- 9780691123462
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Condition: New
€ 66.74€ 51.35
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Paperback. Historical accounts of Jewish violence - particularly against Christians - have long been explosive material. Some historians have distorted these records for anti-Semitic purposes. This book looks at both the history of Jewish violence since late antiquity and the ways in which generations of historians have grappled with that history. Series: Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Num Pages: 360 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: HRJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138244
- ISBN
- 9780691138244
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.25
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Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138879
- ISBN
- 9780691138879
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.25
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Paperback. The Merkavah movement is widely recognized as the first full-fledged expression of Jewish mysticism, one that had important ramifications for classical rabbinic Judaism. This title offers a look at the history of Jewish mysticism from the book of "Ezekiel" to the Merkavah mysticism of late antiquity. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691142159
- ISBN
- 9780691142159
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Condition: New
€ 51.78€ 40.44
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Paperback. Intends to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse into Jewish thought. This book presents a theory of rights founded on the covenant between God and the Jewish people as that covenant is constituted by Scripture and the rabbinic tradition. Series: New Forum Books. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; HRJT; JFSR1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691144375
- ISBN
- 9780691144375
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.43
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Hardback. Series: Library of Jewish Ideas. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691149745
- ISBN
- 9780691149745
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.44
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Paperback. From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson - revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe - built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. This title paints a portrait of Schneerson. Num Pages: 368 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: BGX; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 235 x 16. Weight in Grams: 602.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691154428
- ISBN
- 9780691154428
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.93
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Hardback. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. The author argues on the contrary that structural features of the Talmud were designed to produce a discontinuity with tradition, and that this discontinuity was part and parcel of the rabbis' self-conception. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: HRJS; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691154862
- ISBN
- 9780691154862
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€ 55.24€ 42.92
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Hardback. Traces how each community has come to revere Abraham as an exemplar of its own spiritual teachings and practices. This book reveals how the increasingly conventional notion of equally "Abrahamic" religions derives from a dangerous misunderstanding of key biblical and Qur'anic texts, and fails to do full justice to any of the traditions. Series: Library of Jewish Ideas. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HRAF; HRAX; HRC; HRH; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 588.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155692
- ISBN
- 9780691155692
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.94
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Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691158518
- ISBN
- 9780691158518
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 38.06
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Hardback. Series: Library of Jewish Ideas. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HRJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 27. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691164298
- ISBN
- 9780691164298
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.43
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Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 278 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HRJC; HRJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691605913
- ISBN
- 9780691605913
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Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 34.64
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Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691608280
- ISBN
- 9780691608280
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€ 42.99€ 32.16
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Paperback. This book is a major contribution to the sociology of religion and to religious and biblical studies. Beginning from the classic work of Max Weber, the author analyses the origins of Judaism in the light of more recent scholarship. Num Pages: 325 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBLA; HRJ; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745602974
- ISBN
- 9780745602974
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 30.94
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Hardback. * This book weaves together an original argument about cosmopolitanism, and a plea for what the author calls 'rooted cosmopolitanism', with an historical argument about Jewish memory in relation to the Holocaust. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745647951
- ISBN
- 9780745647951
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€ 69.64
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Paperback. * This book weaves together an original argument about cosmopolitanism, and a plea for what the author calls 'rooted cosmopolitanism', with an historical argument about Jewish memory in relation to the Holocaust. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745647968
- ISBN
- 9780745647968
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Condition: New
€ 23.77
€ 23.77