Author: Howard Schwartz
Publisher: Jason Aronson
ISBN: 9780765761552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1909821292
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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A guide to would-be hasidic kabbalists on how to live a holy life, this work conveys the full flavour of the hasidic approach to kabbalism. Comprehensive and accessible scholarly annotations elucidate the kabbalistic ideas and imagery and clarify the sources to which the author refers. This masterpiece will be of interest to anyone interested in hasidism and Jewish mysticism or the religious way of life and its social history.

Author: Paula Gooder
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567042448
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Offers a fresh appraisal of the ascent of Christ to the third heaven in 2 Corinthians 12, proposing that it records a failed, not a successful, ascent into heaven.

Author: Rachel Elior
Publisher: Urim Publications
ISBN: 965524007X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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How and why a person comes to be possessed by a dybbuk—the possession of a living body by the soul of a deceased person—and what consequences ensue from such possession, form the subject of this book. Though possession by a dybbuk has traditionally been understood as punishment for a terrible sin, it can also be seen as a mechanism used by desperate individuals—often women—who had no other means of escape from the demands and expectations of an all-encompassing patriarchal social order. Dybbuks and Jewish Women examines these and other aspects of dybbuk possession from historical and phenomenological perspectives, with particular attention to the gender significance of the subject.

Author: Markus Bockmuehl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139487795
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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The social and intellectual vitality of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity was in large part a function of their ability to articulate a viably transcendent hope for the human condition. Narratives of Paradise - based on the concrete symbol of the Garden of Delights - came to play a central role for Jews, Christians, and eventually Muslims too. The essays in this volume highlight the multiple hermeneutical perspectives on biblical Paradise from Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins to the systematic expositions of Augustine and rabbinic literature. They show that while early Christian and Jewish sources draw on texts from the same Bible, their perceptions of Paradise often reflect the highly different structures of the two sister religions. Dealing with a wide variety of texts, these essays explore major themes such as the allegorical and literal interpretations of Paradise, the tension between heaven and earth, and Paradise's physical location in space and time.

Author: Christopher A. Graham
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004342087
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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In The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, Christopher A. Graham demonstrates that early Christian authors employed the words “paradise” and “way” as allusions to the expulsion narrative (Genesis 3:22–24) to signify that the benefits available in protological Paradise were once again accessible in and through Jesus and the Church. The centrality of the expulsion narrative in their literary milieus gave these authors confidence that readers would discern these allusions. After considering the reception of the expulsion in texts circulating within the early Christian milieu, Graham turns to the texts of Luke and Irenaeus of Lyons. Both authors drew from an interpretive tradition in which a return to Paradise was desirable. Both celebrated Jesus's reversal of Adam's expulsion and the constitution of Jesus's followers as the location and means by which humanity could continue to access divine truth and life. For both authors, the Church is Paradise and the way therein.

Author: Norman Simms
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443878529
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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The focus of this volume is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars. They, by means of daring mystical interpretations of Scripture, entered a Paradise, representing different means of imaginative reading, perception, memory and application of the law. One of them died, one went mad, another became a heretic and the other came back as a traditional exegete and teacher. Based on that legend, this book examines a small group of late 19th and early 20th century European Jewish intellectuals and artists in the light of their dreams, writings, and moments of crisis. These men and women, comedians in both the sense of stage actors and clowns or witty performers, believed they had entered a new secular and tolerant society, but discovered that there was no escape from their Jewish heritage and way of seeing the world. This monograph looks into the imperfect mirror of cultural experience, discovers a hazy world of illusions, dreams and nightmares on the other side of the looking glass, and sometimes constructs a midrashic conceit of the comical and grotesque screen between them.

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195093887
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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Over 150 tales from the Talmud, the Zohar, Jewish folktales, and Hasidic lore.

Author: Derek Rubin
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0307493113
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how they’ve made their work respond. E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular and universal. Allegra Goodman embraces the categorization, arguing that it immediately binds her to her readers. Dara Horn, among the youngest of these writers, describes the tendency of Jewish writers to focus on anti-Semitism and advocates a more creative and positive way of telling the Jewish story. Thane Rosenbaum explains that as a child of Holocaust survivors, he was driven to write in an attempt to reimagine the tragic endings in Jewish history. Here are the stories of how these writers became who they are: Saul Bellow on his adolescence in Chicago, Grace Paley on her early love of Romantic poetry, Chaim Potok on being transformed by the work of Evelyn Waugh. Here, too, are Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Erica Jong, Jonathon Rosen, Tova Mirvis, Pearl Abraham, Alan Lelchuk, Rebecca Goldstein, Nessa Rapoport, and many more. Spanning three generations of Jewish writing in America, these essays — by turns nostalgic, comic, moving, and deeply provocative- constitute an invaluable investigation into the thinking and the work of some of America’s most important writers.

Author: Andrew T. Lincoln
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521609395
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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The author analyses passages in Paul's letters where the concept of heaven plays a significant role, and discusses the relation of the concept to the background of his thought, his views of history, of the cosmos, of the destiny of humanity, and of the nature of Christian existence.