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Draws on a wide range of primary sources, incl. classical rabbinic and geonic works, liturgical documents, medieval codes, responsa, and siddur commentaries, minhag books, medieval siddur manuscripts, and early printed siddurim. Provides an in-depth account of the history and history of interpretation of many prayers and liturgical practices.

From a study of astronomical observations in the ancient Near East, to an exploration of the excesses of obedience and sacrifice as recounted in the stories of Abraham and Isaac and the Buddhist Vessantara Jataka; from Talmud, to modern Bibles for children, to the evolution of the Dead Sea Scrolls from text and artifact to sacred object.

The Journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.

This book provides both an intellectual biography of Salomon Maimon and an English language translation of his essays on moral psychology. "Salomon Maimon (1753-1800) is one of the most acute, original, and complicated philosophers, and one of the most fascinating personalities, of the eighteenth century" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Piyyut is the art of Hebrew or Aramaic poetry composed either in place of or as adornments to Jewish statutory prayers. Laura S. Lieber uses the piyyutim of a single poet, Yannai (ca. sixth century C.E.), to introduce readers to this important but largely unfamiliar body of writings.

Hebrew Union College Annual is the journal of the Hebrew Union College. Published annually, it is an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.

This final report presents the archaeological finds from the Iron Age I (circa 1200-950 BCE) levels at Tel Dan, located on a tributary of the Jordan River, in the northeastern Hula Valley in northern Israel. The early Iron Age levels at Tel Dan show material evidence for the presence of local peoples, Egyptians, Cypriots, Aegeans and Syrians.

Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world.

The Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centred on the Bible. Amsterdam's People of the Book shows that this unique, Bible-centred culture resulted from the confluence of the Jewish community's Catholic and converso past with the Protestant world in which they came to live.

The first book in any language devoted to the controversial passage of Israel's nation-state law. Israel has no constitution, and though it calls itself the Jewish state there is no agreement among Israelis on how that fact should be reflected in the government's laws or by its courts.

A synopsis and analysis of The Report of the Assembly of Tomar. An assembly convened at the Convent of Christ in the city of Tomar, northeast of Lisbon, in the Spring of 1629. This assembly of ecclesiastical dignitaries and professors of theology and canon law met with the mission to formulate a solution to Portugal's "Jewish problem".

The history of a relatively unknown and short-lived Jewish collegiate organization, Yavneh (The National Jewish Religious Students Association) particularly during its heyday in the 1960s: Yavneh's appearance in 1960, its mission and organizational efflorescence, its educational innovations, its problematic engagement with inter-Jewish pluralism.

Since the period in which the Jewish liturgy was standardized, there has hardly been a time when it was not in a state of flux. Friedland explores the countless ways that the Siddur, Mahzor and Haggadah have been adjusted or transformed so as to faithfully mirror modern Jews' understanding of themselves, their place in society, and their sancta.

Filled with vivid, often dreamlike pictures from the natural world, the poems of Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky, known to her Hebrew readers simply as Zelda, are unlike anything else in Hebrew literature. The Spectacular Difference is the first full-length book of her poems to appear in English translation.

The 19th century neo-Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen has provided significant underpinnings for understanding Judaism as a religion with a rational and universal character, as a religion of hope for the future. The essays selected here lay out his exposition of God as the Uniquely One and explore the universal implications of this idea.

Describes the many achievements of this extraordinary man whose life straddled two distinct Jewish worlds: he excavated remains of the ancient Nabataeans in Transjordan, described a biblical copper-mining industry at the shore of the Red Sea, and showed how the Negev could support a large population if proper irrigation techniques were used.

In the 1660s, Jews of Iberian ancestry, many of them fleeing Inquisitorial persecution, established an agrarian settlement in the midst of the Surinamese tropics.

This first-ever bilingual edition of the poems of Tuvia Ruebner, published as Ruebner marks his 90th birthday, gives readers in both Hebrew and English access to stunning poetry that insists on shared humanity across all border lines and divides.

The work of a coterie of dynamic women, Women of Reform Judaism has been a force in the shaping of American Jewish life since its founding as the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods in 1913. This collection of new scholarly essays looks back at its history in order to understand how the hopes and dreams of its founders have come to fruition.

A study of the titles and roles of civil officials and functionaries in Israel and Judah during the monarchy, including key ministers of the central government, regional administrators, and palace attendants. It sets these Israelite and Judahite titles in their ancient context through extensive study of Egyptian, Akkadian and Ugaritic records.

When the Karaites successfully dissociated themselves from the Rabbanite Russian Jews with the creation of the Karaite Religious Consistory in 1837, the result was a schism within Judaism unprecedented since the rise of Christianity. This book sets this event in the context of the history of the Russian Karaites from their origins to the present.

First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which let the actors and witnesses of events speak for themselves. Marc Saperstein offers a new introduction and updated bibliography.

Based on the Mason Lectures delivered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the winter of 1995, the ten essays in this volume demonstrate the function and dynamic effect Jewish mythologies in social, political, and psychological life.