From rear cover notes: "This is an important study by a noted Catholic theologian that focuses on the place of Judaism within a true Christian self-understanding. It is the best comprehensive treat…
Previous Christian histories and Jewish histories of the same period and events bear little in common. This book attempts to resolves some of these ambivalences and contradictions and to provide an…
What good can come from discussions between evangelical and Jewish scholars? A miuch better understanding of each other's faith, if nothing else, and that is no small thing. Such dialogue took plac…
This book demonstrates the complexity of Jewish mysticism in the history of religions. The author provides a morphology of the deep structures of thought that emerge from the basic texts of Jewish …
In clear and easy-to-understand prose, Gershom Scholem, the pioneer of the modern study of Jewish mysticism explains the basic concepts of the Kabbalah: the mystical "form of the imageless God"; go…
As the Zohar is the canonical text of the Kabbalah, so, in a sense, is Scholem's Major Trends the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understand…
The character of any religion as it is lived and practiced can be quite different from the3 prescriptions and ideals of its traditions and rituals. This bifurcation can be found also in the tension…
or a long time this book has been considered a classic study of Judaism. This is a good translation of a clear, concise, yet complete, overview of what are the essential constituents of Judaism. Wh…
During the rise of Catholocism, Lutheranism and Orthodox Christian sects there was little more then persecution of this small minority of individuals not accepting of their diverse Messianic belief…
Norman Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. In addition to answering questions such as Who are Jews? and How did Judaism Develop?, this Very Sh…