This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most important …
Annotation In responding to the dialectics of monotheism, the oral part of the Torah revealed to Moses at Mt. Sinai is said to complete a coherent theology in revealing the justice of God. As part of an ongoing project, Neusner (religious studies, U. of Southern Florida) present…
Pourquoi les Juifs sont à jamais glorieux. Où est Ninive aujourd'hui - et que s'y passe-t-il vraiment?Proust et le Zohar, Claudel et le Livre d'Isaïe. Vivons-nous, ou non, le retour des années 1930?Pourquoi il n'est pas demandé de croire, mais de savoir.Comment le Royaume des Hé…
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…
Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present. The relationship between Jewish studies and religious studies is a long and complicated one, full of tensions and possibilities. Whereas the majority of scholars working within Jewish studies con…
