Provides an account of the lives and writings of the Cappadocians, showing how they managed to be Greek and Christian at the same time. Pelikan concentrates on four Cappadocians: Gregory of Nazianzus; Basil of Caesarea; Gregory of Nyssa; and Macrina...more details Format:paperback Pages:384
This pioneering book reevaluates the place of converts from Judaism in the narrative of Jewish history. Long considered beyond the pale of Jewish historiography...more details Format:hardback Pages:336
This work, updated for the paperback edition, examines how civic ties between Hindus and Muslims in different Indian cities serve to contain...more details Format:paperback Pages:384
This work evaluates the development of feminist scholarship within Jewish studies. Scholars in biblical studies, rabbinics, theology, history...more details Format:hardback Pages:288
This work evaluates the development of feminist scholarship within Jewish studies. Scholars in biblical studies, rabbinics, theology, history...more details Format:paperback Pages:288
In its first thousand years - from the revelations given to Muhammad in the 7th century to the great Islamic empires of the 16th - Islamic civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered through the Dark Ages...more details Format:paperback (B format) Pages:304
The transformation of a vast area - from central Spain to the delta of the Indus and from the Sahara desert and the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean...more details Format:hardback Pages:400
A study of the issues that increasingly divide Israel's secular Jewish community from its religious Zionists. Addressing the concerns of both communities...more details Format:hardback Pages:186
In this book, the world's foremost scholar of Kabbalah explores the understanding of erotic love in Jewish mystical thought. Encompassing Jewish mystical literatures from those of late antiquity to works of Polish Hasidism...more details Format:hardback Pages:384
"The Mishna", a six-part codification of oral rabbinic law, is the basis of the Talmud. It is one of the two holy books upon which Judaism has been constructed. This edition aims to provide as close to a literal translation as possible...more details Format:paperback Pages:1208
This volume, first published in French in 1936, extols the many joys and benefits of wine. Wine drinkers should take pleasure in Gaston Derys's quaint appreciation of the grape...more details Format:hardback Pages:64
The biblical tale of Noah and the Flood has been interpreted in many different ways through the ages, mirroring the many changes in Western beliefs and values. In this illustrated book...more details Format:hardback Pages:168
An interpretation of the modernization and secularization of Turkey which attempts to show the usefulness of hermeneutics in political analysis...more details Format:hardback Pages:280
A history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period to the end of late antiquity. It traces its development from a communal institution to one which had a distinctively religious profile...more details Format:hardback Pages:754
The second volume of "The Jewish Political Tradition", this work is concerned with the theme of membership. It brings together important texts on membership topics from 3000 years of Jewish history...more details Format:hardback Pages:480
This book presents an historical overview of women and gender in Islam. It is written from a feminist perspective, using the analytic tools of contemporary gender studies...more details Format:paperback Pages:296