562円 In the mid 3rd century BC, King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt ordered a translation of the ancient Hebrew scriptures for the Library of Alexandria, which resulted in the creation of the Septuagint. It is generally accepted that there were several versions of the ancient Hebrew and Samaritan sc...

310円 Das Buch Henoch, als eine der ältesten apokalyptischen Schriften, bietet einen tiefen Einblick in die religiösen und sozialen Strömungen der Zeit, in der es entstand. Es ist ein vielschichtiges Werk, das Ethik, Kosmologie und die Vorstellungen von den Engeln in einem poetischen und zugleich proph...

2,889円 The Babylonian Talmud is a product of late antique rabbinical discourse and debate. It is an immense, complex, multi-volume work divided by topics into tractates which are written in a mixture of Hebrew and Aramaic. Tractate Nazir deals with a person (male or female) who basically assumes three a...

590円 There are two versions of the Book of Esther the various copies of the Septuagint, however, neither originated at the Library of Alexandria. The common version of Esther is found in almost all copies, while the rare version is only found in four know manuscripts, numbered as 19, 93, 108, and 319....

421円 The Book of Tobit appears to be from an older sect of Judaism, likely the one led by the 'false priest' Tobiah, who was expelled from the temple by Ezra when his genealogy could not be proven in 2nd Ezra. 2nd Ezra was the version of Ezra used by the Pharisee sect which emerged under the Hasmonean...

703円 The origin of the Book of Judith has been debated for thousands of years, and is often assumed to have been written in Greek as anti-Hellenic propaganda during the Maccabean Revolt. It isn't clear why an anti-Hellenic book would have been written in Greek by an Aramaic-speaking people, however, n...

14,205円 Psalms that seem to vindicate vengeance and violence are generally omitted from liturgy, as exemplified in most breviaries used by worshipping communities around the world. Although seldom read, the so-called cursing psalms are known to many as their imprecatory passages pose challenges for reade...

2,960円 A modernized, queer reading of the Torah. In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. These weekly portions, read aloud in synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation and commentary for centuries. Followi...

18円 "An excellent overview of the history of Jewish mysticism from its early beginnings to contemporary Hasidism . . . scholarly and complex" ( Library Journal). Over the course of more than sixty years, Gershom Scholem reassembled the scattered texts of Jewish mysticism. In a monumental work of scho...

1,807円 Leo Baecks Das Wesen des Judentums wurde erstmals 1905 veröffentlicht und ist seitdem vielleicht das meistgelesene Beispiel deutsch-jüdischer Gelehrsamkeit des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das als Antwort auf Adolf von Harnacks Vorlesungen über Das Wesen des Christentums verfasste Buch versucht, die Grundpr...

590円 The Vetus Latina is a collection of Latin language translations of the ancient Israelite texts, mainly based on the Greek language Septuagint translation. Not all of the Vetus Latina books were translated from the Septuagint though, as some were translated from versions of the ancient texts that ...

661円 A les teves mans una introducció a l'anàlisi pragmalingüística, el mètode i la història en els estudis lingüístics, bíblics i alcorànics; després per a cada text es presenta una anàlisi independent i comparativa literaria, històrica i teològica des de les fonts i característiques pròpies de cada ...