Download or read book Battle of the Two Talmuds written by Leon H. Charney and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors reached back into history to understand the reasons and methods brilliant rabbis and Talmudic scholars abandoned the Holy Land, both physically and spiritually, to settle in what came to be known as the lands of the Diaspora. This dramatic exodus was contrary to the biblical injunction that all Jews must live in the land of Israel. The Battle of the Two Talmuds explains in great detail how the Babylonian scholars created their own interpretation of the Torah that grew to take precedence over that of the Jerusalem scholars. This book shows that all human beings are subject in various ways to power, glory, and guilt. It was power, glory, and guilt that has effected the tradition and scholarship of Judaism for the past 2,000 years. The reader learns how these qualities intertwined in a positive way to make Judaism an enduring and vibrant religion.
Download or read book The Talmud A Biography written by Harry Freedman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Talmud is the story of the Jewish people—a thrilling insight into Jewish culture and a devastating account of the history of anti-Semitism.
Download or read book The Two Talmuds Compared written by Jacob Neusner and published by University of South Florida. This book was released on 1996 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewish and Christian Views on Bodily Pleasure written by Robert Cherry and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the Common Era, Jewish renewal movements, including Jesus’ ministry, had similar views: embracing moderate ascetic behavior. Over the next three centuries, however, they moved in opposite directions. Christianity came to firmly privilege anti-pleasure views and female lifelong virginity while the Babylonian Talmud strongly embraced positive views on bodily pleasures and female sexuality. The books most distinguishing feature is that it is the first time that one book contrasts in detail the evolution of Christian and Jewish ascetic beliefs. More than other books, it systematically presents the critical role played by Babylonian Jewry: how they became the center of world Jewry with the virtual extinction of the Palestinian community; their decisive rejection, more so than the Palestinian community, of any ascetic tendencies; and how they came to migrate to the European continent during the medieval period. It concludes by relating how the eighteenth-century Hasidic movement and the nineteenth-century Irish devotional movement reestablished the contrasting views that helps explain why Jewish immigrants and not Irish Catholics came to dominate twentieth-century vaudeville.
Download or read book Holy War in Judaism written by Reuven Firestone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author identifies and analyzes the historical, conceptual, and intellectual factors that renewed holy war ideas in modern Judaism.
Download or read book Why the Jews written by Robert Cherry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejects the commonly held explanations for this shift: Jewish commercial acumen and their desire to assimilate. Instead, this book argues that the “pleasure principle”—a positive view of bodily pleasures and sexuality that Jewish immigrants held ––gave rise to the role of Jewish influence on popular culture, an influence still felt today. After discussing the pivotal ascendancy of Jews in vaudeville and silent films, Cherry explores the important role that Jewish performers and middlemen played in the evolution of popular culture throughout the century, from stage and the big screen to radio, television, and the music industry. He concludes with a broader discussion of Jewish values that helps explain the continued outsized role that Jews continue to play in American popular culture.
Download or read book The Two Talmuds Compared written by Jacob Neusner and published by University of South Florida. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds written by Christine Elizabeth Hayes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Hayes addresses the central concern in talmudic studies over the genesis of halakhic (legal) divergence between the Talmuds produced by the Palestinian rabbinic community (c. 370 C.E.) and the Babylonian rabbinic community (c. 650 C.E.). Hayes analyzes selected divergences between parallel passages of the two Talmuds. Proceeding on a case-by-case basis, she considers whether external influences (cultural or regional differences), internal factors (textual, hermeneutical, or dialectical), or some intersection of the two best accounts for the differences.
Download or read book Politics and Government in Israel written by Gregory S. Mahler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This balanced and comprehensive text explores Israeli government and politics, tracing the history of the state, and the social, religious, economic, and military environments of Israeli politics. Gregory Mahler’s concise book provides an invaluable start for readers needing an introduction to Israel today.
Download or read book Ancient Medicine written by Laura M. Zucconi and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by Laura Zucconi is an accessible introductory text to the practice and theory of medicine in the ancient world. In contrast to other works that focus heavily on Greece and Rome, Zucconi’s Ancient Medicine covers a broader geographical and chronological range. The world of medicine in antiquity consisted of a lot more than Hippocrates and Galen. Zucconi applies historical and anthropological methods to examine the medical cultures of not only Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome but also the Levant, the Anatolian Peninsula, and the Iranian Plateau. Devoting special attention to the fundamental relationship between medicine and theology, Zucconi’s one-volume introduction brings the physicians, patients, procedures, medicines, and ideas of the past to light.
Download or read book The Two Talmuds Compared Tractate Erubin written by Jacob Neusner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Two Talmuds Compared written by Jacob Neusner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Talmud written by Michael Levi Rodkinson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The history of the Talmud from the time of the formation about 200 B C up to the present time written by Michael Levi Rodkinson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The history of the Talmud from the time of its formation about 200 B C up to the present time written by Michael Levi Rodkinson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Two Talmuds Compared written by Jacob Neusner and published by University of South Florida. This book was released on 1996 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Two Talmuds Compared Tractate Erubin written by Jacob Neusner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
