New Jewish Books
Jewish Identities in a Changing World Since 1989 Russian-speaking Jews, often raised and socialized in the Soviet Union, have “dispersed” in great numbers to Western countries and Israel. Even there, they retain their own...
Living in the Liminal Religious Experience and Divinization in the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls is the first book-length study to examine Qumran religious experience through the lens of liminality in order to better understand what...
The Christian Discovery of Jewish Catacombs in Rome Jews, Judaism, and the Arts This study examines how various catacomb networks in Rome were eliminated and subsequently restored to the historical record as specifically Jewish...
German Occupation, Vichy, and Truth Jews, Judaism, and the Arts This book examines fiction and film narratives that show the active collaboration of the Vichy government with the Nazis in the deportation and murder...
Brill Reference Library of Judaism This volume brings together over forty of Schiffman’s Studies on Ancient Judaism that have helped to shape this emerging field. Throughout, these studies display a wide-ranging perspective, bringing together...
The lost world of East European Jews meets the lost world of life under the Soviet rule. From the Galician shtetl of Mos’ciska (Mostyska)–now in Ukraine near the Polish border–the memoir follows a Jewish...
Brill Reference Library of Judaism Credit is the oxygen of every society. In many cases we wonder why the rabbis prohibit certain business credit transactions considering them usury. The writer uses literary and epigraphic...
This volume comprehensively examines all texts dealing with social justice in the Prophecy of Amos. It also provides evidence of contemporary systemic social injustice. The volume then reflects on how biblical social justice is...
Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy This is the first book to explore the role of quotation in modern Jewish thought. Weaving back and forth from Benjamin to Rosenzweig, the book...
From Historical Method to Cases Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Roman Judaea, Christian origins, and Roman-Judaean-Christian relations are flourishing fields of endless fascination. Amid the flurry of new research, however, which uses ever new...
