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Author: David Klinghoffer Publisher: Image ISBN: 0385521898 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 258
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Is morality based on some essential truth or is it defined by society? In this highly original critique of American social mores and popular culture, David Klinghoffer argues that the Ten Commandments are essential to maintaining a morally healthy society. With the meticulousness of a scholar, he begins by excavating the meaning of the Commandments. Drawing on the millennia-old rabbinical work Mechilta, he explains that the Decalogue was written on two tablets to show that when a country neglects the Commandments written on the first tablet—those having to do with the relationship between God and people—the interpersonal relationships described on the second tablet suffer irreparable damage as well. Addressing such timely topics as the controversy over public displays of the Commandments and the battles over intelligent design, Klinghoffer demonstrates that Christians and Jews are united in their opposition to the pagan aspects of our culture. In the tradition of Hebrew prophets like Jeremiah and Isaiah, he describes our failings with humor and compassion but also with anger and disappointment. An unusual, incisive perspective on the role of religion in society, Shattered Tablets is sure to spark debate. In the end Klinghoffer argues that by shrugging off the Bible as a guide and turning toward secularism, America has created a crude, cruel, and dishonest national life.
Author: David Klinghoffer Publisher: Image ISBN: 0385521898 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
Is morality based on some essential truth or is it defined by society? In this highly original critique of American social mores and popular culture, David Klinghoffer argues that the Ten Commandments are essential to maintaining a morally healthy society. With the meticulousness of a scholar, he begins by excavating the meaning of the Commandments. Drawing on the millennia-old rabbinical work Mechilta, he explains that the Decalogue was written on two tablets to show that when a country neglects the Commandments written on the first tablet—those having to do with the relationship between God and people—the interpersonal relationships described on the second tablet suffer irreparable damage as well. Addressing such timely topics as the controversy over public displays of the Commandments and the battles over intelligent design, Klinghoffer demonstrates that Christians and Jews are united in their opposition to the pagan aspects of our culture. In the tradition of Hebrew prophets like Jeremiah and Isaiah, he describes our failings with humor and compassion but also with anger and disappointment. An unusual, incisive perspective on the role of religion in society, Shattered Tablets is sure to spark debate. In the end Klinghoffer argues that by shrugging off the Bible as a guide and turning toward secularism, America has created a crude, cruel, and dishonest national life.
Author: Charles S. Sherman Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451656238 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 224
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"A wise, uplifting memoir about a rabbi's search for understanding and his discovery of hope and joy after his young son suffered a catastrophic brain-stem stroke that left him a quadriplegic and dependent on a ventilator for each breath."--Amazon.com.
Author: Jeffrey K. Salkin Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0827614330 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 180
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The story of Abraham smashing his father's idols might be the most important Jewish story ever told and the key to how Jews define themselves. In a work at once deeply erudite and wonderfully accessible, Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin conducts readers through the life and legacy of this powerful story and explains how it has shaped Jewish consciousness. Offering a radical view of Jewish existence, The Gods Are Broken! views the story of the young Abraham as the "primal trauma" of Jewish history, one critical to the development of a certain Jewish comfort with rebelliousness and one that, happening in every generation, has helped Jews develop a unique identity. Salkin shows how the story continues to reverberate through the ages, even in its connection to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism. Salkin's work--combining biblical texts, archaeology, rabbinic insights, Hasidic texts (some never before translated), philosophy, history, poetry, contemporary Jewish thought, sociology, and popular culture--is nothing less than a journey through two thousand years of Jewish life and intellectual endeavor.
Author: Hermann Strack Publisher: Lexham Academic ISBN: 1683595483 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 1007
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Volume three contains an English translation of the commentary on Romans through Revelation. Hermann L. Strack and Paul Billerbeck's Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash is an important reference work for illustrating the concepts, theological background, and cultural assumptions of the New Testament. The commentary walks through each New Testament book verse by verse, referencing potentially illuminating passages from the Talmud and Midrash and providing easy access to the rich textual world of rabbinic material. Originally published between 1922 and 1928 as Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch, Strack and Billerbeck's commentary has been unavailable in English until now. Translated by Joseph Longarino and edited by Jacob N. Cerone, this volume also includes an introduction by David Instone-Brewer.
Author: Donna Nabors Publisher: Carpenter's Son Publishing ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 188
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What happens when life doesn’t turn out the way we plan? What if life’s disappointments are more than we can handle? Shattered Dreams to Treasured Truths answers these questions and more. Donna Nabors shares her shattered dreams as a young minister’s wife in a marriage engulfed by sexual addiction, lies, emotional and physical abuse. She shares how her disappointments were transformed with her spiritual jewelry box. Expanding on this analogy, gemstones are used to represent five key items each woman needs including diamonds of faith, sapphires of strength, rubies of love, amethysts of peace, and emeralds of hope. Experiences alone provide nothing but interesting reading without application to the individual. Donna provides that application by encouraging the reader to fill their heart with treasured truths from God’s Word making them second nature in everyday life. She shares stories from her past and stories of women in scripture experiencing a myriad of disappointments. There is a common factor in each transformation showing how women can live beyond their own shattered dreams. Wherever a woman finds herself today, she can step into tomorrow adorned with gemstones of faith, strength, love, peace, and hope.
Author: Naomi Levy Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0345413830 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 289
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"Words that come from the heart enter the heart, an ancient rabbinic proverb instructs us. The words in this book come from the heart--mine and the hearts of others. I pray that you will find within them a spark that will ignite the flame of hope and the passion for healing that lies within us all." Naomi Levy was a spirited fifteen-year-old when her father was murdered in a senseless holdup that destroyed not only his life but her trust in a loving God. Healing took a long time, yet from her struggles with grief, anger, and depression, she forged the wisdom that made her, at twenty-six, a beloved rabbi--and now makes her book a miracle of honesty, recovery, and compassion. Where do we find the strength to meet tragedy? Can we rekindle hope? Innocence? Faith? The answers, illustrated with many moving, true stories drawn from Rabbi Levy's experience and the lives of her congregants, provide sanity, peace, and a safe harbor where we can heal and grow. Remember: "Death is a great tragedy. But to die while we are still living, that is the greatest tragedy of all."
Author: Rabbi Marc D. Angel, PhD Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing ISBN: 1580238556 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 224
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A fascinating exploration of biblical texts attributed to the ancient King Solomon—Ecclesiastes, Proverbs and the Song of Songs—and what they teach us about life's meaning and mission, the significance of each human being in the vastness of space and eternity of time, ethics, righteousness, spirituality and our relationship with God.
Author: Stephen Korsman Publisher: Stephen Korsman ISBN: 0620726091 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 462
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Seventh-day Adventists give Catholics a hard time with the misinformation they spread about the Catholic Church and the day of the week they worship on. This ebook is one Catholic's study of Adventist claims, the Bible, and the Catholic Church. It attempts to show the biblical basis for Christianity's abandonment of the Old Testament sabbath, the biblical basis for Sunday observance, and takes a look at other pertinent topics relating to Adventism and Catholicism.
Author: Agata Bielik-Robson Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 0810127288 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 416
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Hailed as our era's most profound theorist of literary influence, Harold Bloom's own influence on the landscape of literary criticism has been decisive. His wide-ranging critical writings have plumbed the depths of Romanticism, explored the anxiety caused by the influence of one generation of poets on another, wrestled with the idea of a literary canon, and examined the relationship between religion and literature. --
Author: David Klinghoffer
Author: David Klinghoffer
Author: Charles S. Sherman
Author: Jeffrey K. Salkin
Author: Hermann Strack
Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Author: Donna Nabors
Author: Naomi Levy
Author: Rabbi Marc D. Angel, PhD
Author: Stephen Korsman
Author: Agata Bielik-Robson