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Settling the Mind, Settling the Land
Mindful Nationalism and Virtue Conflict Among Religious Israelis
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512830651
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Forgotten Paths to Modernity
Isaac Abravanel, New Imperial Thinking, and Critical Historiography
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512830637
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Proclaim Liberty
The Jubilee and Ancient Utopian Visions
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512830590
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Ritual
An Ancient Jewish Perspective
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9781512829778
Pub Date: August 2026
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Circumventing the Law
Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512829648
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
This book traces rabbinic thought on the phenomenon of legal circumventions—finding licit ways to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. Elana Stein Hain shows how rabbinic literature does not fully reject or accept loopholes, but instead determines their acceptability based on whether their outcomes and processes maintain the integrity of the law.
After Revelation
The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512827781
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
After Revelation integrates Jewish legal thought in the medieval Islamic world into its larger environment. Traveling from Baghdad to Cairo and bookending with accounts of medieval Jewish luminaries Saadia Gaon and Moses Maimonides, Marc D. Herman underscores that medieval Judaism evolved into the shapes that it did through contact with Islam.
And the Sages Did Not Know
Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512825176
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Although the rabbis of the first two centuries CE divided the world into men and women, they recognized that some people are born with characteristics that do not fit these categories. Through an examination of early rabbinic sources, this book explores seven different approaches that the rabbis took toward intersex persons in their legal texts.
Zimzum
God and the Origin of the World
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512824353
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
424 Pages
Zimzum is the kabbalistic idea that God created the world by limiting his omnipresence. Zimzum originated in the teachings of the sixteenth-century Jewish mystic Isaac Luria and here, Christoph Schulte follows its traces across the Jewish and Christian intellectual history of Europe and North America over four centuries.
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512824186
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
274 Pages
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity clarifies the world of late ancient Judaism through the versatile and powerful lens of the Psalter, recounting the many ways that ancient Jews held physical copies of the Psalms, read from it, interpreted it, used it for liturgy, invoked it as magic, and recited it as an act of piety.
Jewish Blues
A History of a Color in Judaism
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9781512823370
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
252 Pages
Presenting a cultural, social, and intellectual history of the color blue in Jewish life between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries, Jewish Blues contends that the color blue has constituted a means through which Jews have understood themselves.
Settling the Mind, Settling the Land
Mindful Nationalism and Virtue Conflict Among Religious Israelis
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512830651
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Forgotten Paths to Modernity
Isaac Abravanel, New Imperial Thinking, and Critical Historiography
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512830637
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Proclaim Liberty
The Jubilee and Ancient Utopian Visions
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512830590
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Ritual
An Ancient Jewish Perspective
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9781512829778
Pub Date: August 2026
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Circumventing the Law
Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512829648
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
After Revelation
The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512827781
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
And the Sages Did Not Know
Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512825176
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Zimzum
God and the Origin of the World
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512824353
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
424 Pages
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512824186
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
274 Pages
Jewish Blues
A History of a Color in Judaism
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9781512823370
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
252 Pages