"Rising from the Ruins is an assessment of reason, being, and the good in a world fractured by the passage of the Shoah, or Holocaust. The historical character of evil that appeared in the Shoah damaged the relationship of human existence to being, creating a time when the confi…
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Every culture makes the distinction between ""true religion"" and magic, regarding one action and its result as ""miraculous,"" while rejecting another as the work of the devil. Surveying such topics as Babylonian witchcraft, Jesus the magician, magic in Hasidism and Kabbalah, a…
The new "mosaik" : Jews and European culture, 1750-1940 / David Sorkin -- The politics of Jewish historiography / Michael Brenner -- "The first shall be the last" : the rise and development of modern Jewish historiography in the Netherlands until 1940 / Rena Fuks-Mansfeld -- Epi…
"This is the most recent collective contribution of a group of biblical scholars and archaeologists who are engaged in an ongoing debate about the nature of family and household religion in ancient Israel and its environment. It is intended to complement the volume Household and…
Discusses anti-Judaism and Christian theology, specifically the Jew in Christian interpretation, especially of the Scriptures, in the medieval period. Shows how the ambivalence of Paul continued to be reflected, along with Augustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, in key aspects o…
