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Confronting Antisemitism From the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Abstract: This volume engages with antisemitic stereotypes as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred. These religious symbols are stored in Christian, Muslim and even today's secular cultural and religious memories. This volume...
Is There a Judeo-Christian Tradition? : A European Perspective
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Abstract: The term ‘Judeo-Christian'in reference to a tradition, heritage, ethic, civilization, faith etc. has been used in a wide variety of contexts with widely diverging meanings. Contrary to popular belief, the term was not coined in the United States in the...
Advancing the Learning Agenda in Jewish Education
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Abstract: Jewish educational projects and programs are thriving, attracting philanthropic support for exciting and creative approaches in every sector and setting. But underneath that energy, we are not as clear as we ought to be about desired outcomes, the kind...
The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism : Essays on Early Jewish Literature and History
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Abstract: This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. His many articles on this su...
Jalkut Schimoni zum Zwölfprophetenbuch : Übersetzung und Kommentar
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Abstract: Der Jalkut Schimoni ist ein Sammelwerk rabbinischer Auslegungen zur gesamten hebräischen Bibel. Unerforscht ist, nach welchen Kriterien die Auslegungen ausgewählt wurden und ob das Werk als umfassendes Nachschlagewerk für exegetische Fragen, zur Verbin...
Holy Russia, Sacred Israel : Jewish-Christian Encounters in Russian Religious Thought
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Abstract: Holy Russia, Sacred Israel examines how Russian religious thinkers, both Jewish and Christian, conceived of Judaism, Jewry and the ‘Old Testament'philosophically, theologically and personally at a time when the Messianic element in Russian consciousnes...
Comprehending Antisemitism Through the Ages: A Historical Perspective
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Abstract: This volume traces the history of antisemitism from antiquity through contemporary manifestations of the discrimination of Jews. It documents the religious, sociological, political and economic contexts in which antisemitism thrived and thrives and sho...
Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews
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Abstract: Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets ...
Isaac Orobio : The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt
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Abstract: The series Studies and Texts in Scepticism contains monographs, translations, and collected essays exploring scepticism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a set of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the c...
Beyond Jewish Identity : Rethinking Concepts and Imagining Alternatives
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Abstract: There is something deeply problematic about the ways that Jews, particularly in America, talk about “Jewish identity” as a desired outcome of Jewish education. For many, the idea that the purpose of Jewish education is to strengthen Jewish identity is ...