Základní halachické dílo překládané pro svou popularitu po celém světě již více jak jedno století. Výtažek nejdůležitějších... Zobraziť viac
Jeden ze současných největších odborníků na židovské dějiny se ve svém průvodci obrací na odbornou i laickou veřejnost a vypráví srozumitelnou a názornou formou příběh etnika zahrnující historii pěti kontinentů za posledních více než 3 000 let... Zobraziť viac
In Crossroads of Jewish Bratislava, the author identifies several key junctures that determined the history of Jews in Bratislava between the 19th and 21st centuries, especially in terms of their... Zobraziť viac
Ilustrovaná kronika skutočných osudov, ktorá zachytáva bolesť, prežitie aj nádej židovských detí a rodín počas pogromov, prenasledovania a genocídy. Autor s hlbokou ľudskosťou svedčí nielen o krutosti nenávistných režimov, ale aj o výnimočných prejavoch o Zobraziť viac
This book makes the radical argument that there was a "messianic forerunner" to Jesus named Menachem, the Messiah from Qumran, who lived a generation earlier and served as a sort of roll model for Jesus and his messianic movement. Zobraziť viac
The instant New York Times bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape... Zobraziť viac
The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue. The literature on the subject is substantial and diverse. While efforts to exonerate Luther as "merely" a... Zobraziť viac
Pious Jews of the Second Temple period sought to conform their lives to Torah, the law God had given Israel. Their different sects disagreed, however, on how to interpret particular laws and even on the question of who had the authority to interpret... Zobraziť viac
This book presents a new framework for understanding the relationship between biblical narrative and rabbinic law. Drawing on legal theory and models of rabbinic exegesis, Jane L. Kanarek argues for the centrality of biblical narrative in the formation... Zobraziť viac
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and serves as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One... Zobraziť viac
Who is Israel? Who were the priestly authors of the Pentateuch? This anthropological reading of the Bible, by a world-renowned scholar, starts by asking why the Book of Numbers lists the twelve tribes of Israel seven times. Mary Douglas argues that the... Zobraziť viac
Was Jesus of Nazareth a real historical person or a fictional character in a religious legend? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal about the origins of Christianity? Has there been a conspiracy to suppress information in the Scrolls that contradicts... Zobraziť viac
A convenient and accessible guide to Levinas which emphasises the interdisciplinary significance of his work. Zobraziť viac
Now in its 7th printing since republication in 1997, the Sefer Yetzirah has established itself as a primary source for all serious students of Kabbalah. Rabbi Kaplan''s translation of this oldest and most mysterious of all Kabbalistic texts provides a... Zobraziť viac
Influenced originally by Islamic theological speculation, classical philosophers and Christian Scholasticism of the Middle Ages, Jewish thinkers living in Islamic and Christian lands philosophized about Judaism from the ninth to fifteenth centuries.... Zobraziť viac
Maccoby explains clearly the ritual purity system of the Hebrew Bible. He focuses on the various human conditions which are not sinful, but which disqualify Israelites from entering the Temple unless they have been purified. Recent theories of the... Zobraziť viac
Reprezentativní publikace vychází u příležitosti stejnojmenné výstavy konané v Císařské konírně Pražského hradu, ve dnech 5. srpna až 8. listopadu 2009. Kniha je rozdělena do dvou částí. První z nich obsahuje odborné studie zaměřené na jednotlivé... Zobraziť viac
Focuses on women's Islamic activism in Egypt to challenge binary representations of religious versus secular subjectivities Zobraziť viac
This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals, legal codes, mystical books, autobiographical writings, folk literature,... Zobraziť viac
