The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages
Ruth Mazo Karras
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812253023
Pub Date: April 2021
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
"How do we approach the study of masculinity in the past?" Ruth Mazo Karras asks. Medieval documents that have come down to us tell a great deal about the things that men did, but not enough about...
For a world mired in catastrophe, nothing could be more urgent than the question of survival. In this theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking book, Adam Y. Stern calls for a critical reevaluation...
An impressively learned and beautifully illustrated review of medieval ideas about ParadiseDid Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to live? If so, did human beings urinate...
From Eusebius of Caesarea, who first compiled a collection of martyr narratives around 300, to Thierry Ruinart, whose Acta primorum martyrum sincera et selecta was published in 1689, the selection...
Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums...
God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh
Ariel Evan Mayse
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812252187
Pub Date: May 2020
Format: Hardcover
408 Pages
A study of the life and work of 'the Maggid"—a major figure in the mystical thought of early HasidismEnshrined in Jewish memory simply as "the Maggid" (preacher), Rabbi Dov Ber...
Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present
Edited by Theodor Dunkelgrün and Paweł Maciejko
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812251883
Pub Date: April 2020
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
A formidable collection of studies on religious conversion and converts in Jewish historyTheodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko observe that the term "conversion" is profoundly polysemous....
A study of three hundred years of medieval Franciscan history that focuses on martyrdomWhile hagiographies tell of Christian martyrs who have died in an astonishing number of ways...
A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religionIn the current popular imagination, Buddhism is often understood to be a religion...
A investigation into the thirteenth-century Norwich circumcision case and its meaning for Christians and JewsIn 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized...
