Modern Musar. Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought, Paperback - Geoffrey D. Claussen

Modern Musar explores the diverse ways Jews understand ten virtues: honesty and love of truth; curiosity and inquisitiveness; humility; courage and...

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Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ethan KleinbergNumber of pages: 248Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 2021D...

Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that...

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Reducere. Roots and Branches is a broad-ranging collection of writings that analyzes the philosophical foundations of a number of crucial movements, ideas an...

Reducere. Can we re-imagine our relationship to the earth--using theviewpoints and texts of the last four millennia? Human responses to the natural world str...

Reducere. Can we re-imagine our relationship to the earth--using theviewpoints and texts of the last four millennia? Human responses to the natural world str...

A novel Kabbalistic synthesis on the nature of consciousnessPublisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): Hyman M. SchipperNumber of pages: 240Publicat...

DescriptionEvery work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. Whitehead's famous dictum that the...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Geoffrey ChaucerTranslator: Simon WebbChaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls' is a story about love, lust, honour, nature . . . and...

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This book explores attempts by church, state, and medical authorities to regulate and professionalize the practice of midwifery in Italy from the l...

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Fills an important gap in Roth scholarship, placing Roth's major works of fiction in the context of a generational interest in religious redemption...

Reducere. DescriptionThis small book is in no sense a treatise on the Qabalah. Instead, it is a speculative study on one of several secret doctrines which it...

Concise history of the Sri Lankan people.Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Wickramasinghe NiraNumber of pages: 416Publication date: ...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Geoffrey ChaucerTranslator: Joseph GlaserNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 224 ...

Reducere. The third and final installment of James Dunn's magisterial history of Christian origins through 190 C.E., Neither Jew nor Greek: A Contested Ident...

Reducere. Holland's boat building tradition took root in the 1840s, as Dutch immigrants crafted flatboats and watercraft for residents. Just a century later,...

This book is a model of philosophical and Heideggerian scholarship. Avoiding the extremes of abject worship and facile refutation, it moves into th...

This book analyzes and describes the development and aspects of imagery techniques, a primary mode of mystical experience, in twentieth century Jew...

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Reducere. Heller examines the sense of values embodied in the works of key German writers and thinkers from Goethe to Kafka, particularly the consciousness o...

Contributor(s): Author: Geoffrey ChaucerTranslator: David WrightA clear modern prose translation of Chaucer's masterpiece of Middle English storyte...

Reducere. A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its pastAs a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha...

During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. The word 'politique',...

Reducere. Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America's religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey...

Reducere. A Misguided Thought is a collection of poetry that shows the overall life experiences of a 21-year-old-from living a sheltered life writing about h...

"Based on a text originally published in Switzerland as: 'Ukraine zwischen Ost und West, ' by Ulrich Schmid A Ulrich Schmid, 2015, Vontobel-Stiftung

This book explores questions about the locality versus the universality of virtues from a number of theoretical and practical perspectives.Publishe...

Reducere. The present book is a sequel to Ephraim Chamiel's two previous works The Middle Way and The Dual Truth--studies dedicated to the "middle" trend in ...

Reducere. 100 Easy, must-have Jewish recipes for any occasion Jewish food is steeped in diverse cultural traditions, featuring a wide array of ingredients, f...

Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought establishes the precise role political counsel played during the 'monarchy of counsel', from th...

Bringing together intellectual history, international political thought and international law, Schroeder explores the extent to which seventeenth-c...

Reducere. Presenting the five books of Moses from a distinctly Messianic Jewish perspective, the Messianic Torah Devotional will forever change the way you s...

Reducere. There emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings, or rab...

This collection brings together leading social anthropologists, historians, philosophers of science and mathematics, and researchers in artificial ...