The founding rabbi of the new London Synagogue further defends his thesis concluding the 1984 edition that social, economic, political, and theological factors have always shaped halakhah (Jewish law). Indexed by biblical...more details Format:Paperback Pages:344
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Louis Jacobs
ISBN:9780853033523
The 'Ask the Rabbi' column in the Jewish Chronicle was an extremely popular weekly feature. During more than 25 years, over 1,000 lively questions and answers accumulated...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:200
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Louis Jacobs
ISBN:9781874774587
The author re-examines the issues first published in his still-controversial text, We Have Reason to Believe . He argues that the traditional doctrine which claims that the Torah is from Heaven can and should be maintained...more details Format:hardback Pages:278
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Louis Jacobs
ISBN:9781874774181
From its very beginnings in the eighteenth century, the Hasidic movement was suffused with a joyous enthusiasm and optimism derived from the notion of God being in all things. This led to an insistence on joy as an essential element in divine worship...more details Format:Paperback Pages:222
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Louis Jacobs
ISBN:9780853035619
Rabbi Jacobs, with sixty years' experience of pulpit work to his credit, provides a number of homilies for each weekly portion of the modern sermon and for the chapters of Ethics of the Fathers. The text for the modern sermon is usually the sidra...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:233
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Louis Jacobs
ISBN:9780521050302
The aim of this study is to demonstrate that, for all the admitted emphasis on peoplehood in the Jewish religious tradition, there are equally strong individualistic tendencies within Judaism which should not be confined to the sidelines...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Louis Jacobs
ISBN:9780521403450
This book attempts to uncover the basic form and structure of the Babylonian Talmud, a centrally important text in Jewish studies. The novel contribution made by Dr. Jacobs to the study of the Talmud consists in his concentration on the literary principles employed in its composition...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:152
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Louis Jacobs
ISBN:9780521050319
This book attempts to uncover the basic form and structure of the Babylonian Talmud, which is a centrally important text in Jewish studies. The contribution made by Dr Jacobs to the study of the Talmud consists in his presentation of the literary principles employed in its composition...more details Format:Paperback Pages:152
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Louis Jacobs
ISBN:9780805241433
Ranging from biblical times to the present day, a collection by Jewish mystics features accounts of religious experiences, ecstatic prayers, and more....more details Format:hardback Pages:349
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Louis Jacobs
ISBN:9780521269483
This book, the only one in English that can serve as a textbook for beginners and more advanced students of the Babylonian Talmud, examines in detail a number of typical lengthy passages with a view to showing how Talmudic reasoning operates and how the Talmud was compiled by its final editors...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Louis Jacobs
ISBN:9781904113270
Responsa are replies given by prominent rabbinic authorities to questions put to them by other scholars, asking for rulings on specific issues...more details Format:Paperback Pages:390
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Louis Jacobs;Steven Clayton JohnCollins
ISBN:9780521411387
This study demonstrates that, for all the admitted emphasis on peoplehood in the Jewish religious tradition, there are equally strong individualistic tendencies within Judaism. Dr. Jacobs maintains that in any balanced view of Judaism it must be shown that what the individual does with his life has eternal significance for that same individual...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:176
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Robert Louis Jacobs
ISBN:9780313250927
The author provides inquiring listeners, able to read musical quotations, with a general understanding of the role of harmony in music. He shows its interconnection with melody...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Louisa Smith;Ben Jacobson JenniferGrossblatt
ISBN:9781932855654
Give 2nd Graders a fun and confi dence-building opportunity to learn what they need to know, when they need to know it With hundreds of questions covering all curriculum areas and a 1- or 2-player game component...more details Format:Game
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JACOBS LOUISE
ISBN:9781904113119
More than forty years have passed since Louis Jacobs first put forward the argument that traditionally observant Jews have no reason to take issue with the results obtained by the historical critics in their investigation into the Bible and the other classical sources of Judaism. In his numerous works on Jewish theology and in lectures worldwide...more details Format:Paperback Pages:278
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Harriet A Jacobs;Louise Child Lydia MarieMeriwether
ISBN:9780743460569
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the "Life of a Slave Girl" is one of the most compelling accounts of slavery and one of the most unique of the one hundred or so slave narratives -- mostly written by men -- published before the Civil War...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Louis L Jacobs
ISBN:9780801864810
Winner of the Colbert Award for the best adult book about dinosaurs
Louis Jacobs reopened paleontologists' eyes to the African continent when he uncovered a major fossil site in the hills of Malawi in the 1980s. During five digging seasons in Malawi and three in Cameroon...more details Format:Paperback Pages:344