In Search of God: The Meaning and Message of the Everlasting by Tryggve Mettinger,Frederick H. Cryer

The Book of "Genesis": A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)

In the course of its 2,500-year lifestyles, the booklet of Genesis has been the keystone to nearly each vital declare approximately fact, humanity, and God in Judaism and Christianity. And it keeps to play a vital function in debates approximately technological know-how, politics, and human rights. With readability and talent, acclaimed biblical pupil Ronald Hendel offers a breathtaking heritage of this iconic booklet, exploring its influence on Western faith, philosophy, technological know-how, politics, literature, and extra.

Why We Remain Jews: The Path To Faith

Dr. Tsesis describes the trail he traversed from spiritual lack of knowledge to powerful trust within the Jewish faith. Tsesis assigns a unique position to the evidence of his end that faith and science—especially in gentle of contemporary discoveries—are no longer antagonists, and are, actually, in whole concord, supplementing and never apart from one another.

Rabbinic Authority, Volume 1: The Vision and the Reality

Introducing English-speaking readers to the parameters and scope of rabbinic authority ordinarily, and the workings of the establishment of the beit din—the Jewish court docket of law—in specific, this booklet provides 10 rulings in situations of Jewish civil legislations that the writer passed down as a member of a beit din panel.

Making Men: The Male Coming-of-Age Theme in the Hebrew Bible

Making males identifies and elaborates on a subject within the Hebrew Bible that has principally long past left out through scholars-the transition of a male adolescent from boyhood to manhood. Wilson locates 5 examples of the male coming-of-age topic within the Hebrew Bible. The protagonists of those tales contain the well known biblical heroes Moses, Samuel, David, and Solomon.