When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks by Atalia Omer

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

In the course of its 2,500-year lifestyles, the e-book of Genesis has been the keystone to nearly each vital declare approximately fact, humanity, and God in Judaism and Christianity. And it maintains to play a significant function in debates approximately technology, politics, and human rights. With readability and talent, acclaimed biblical pupil Ronald Hendel presents a wide ranging heritage of this iconic publication, exploring its influence on Western faith, philosophy, technology, politics, literature, and extra.

Why We Remain Jews: The Path To Faith

Dr. Tsesis describes the trail he traversed from non secular lack of awareness to robust 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, in reality, 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 usually, and the workings of the establishment of the beit din—the Jewish court docket of law—in specific, this ebook offers 10 rulings in circumstances 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 matter within the Hebrew Bible that has mostly long past left out via scholars-the transition of a male adolescent from boyhood to manhood. Wilson locates 5 examples of the male coming-of-age subject within the Hebrew Bible. The protagonists of those tales comprise the well known biblical heroes Moses, Samuel, David, and Solomon.