Religion : Judaism

The dynamics of comparison and social competition in the tales of Daniel 1-6 are explored with the help of social-scientific models depicting honor and exploring the related dynamics of purity, patronage, virtue, limited good, and envy. more...

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With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post-World War II Europe. Striking a balance between close readings of individual texts and general surveys of larger movements and underlying themes, the essays portray Jewish authors across Europe as writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid identities. more...

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Where were you born? Were you born at the Beth? Many thousands of Americans—Jewish and non-Jewish—were born at a hospital bearing the Star of David and named Beth Israel, Mount Sinai, or Montefiore. Newark Beth Israel Hospital is a distinguished modern medical institution in New Jersey whose history opens a window on American health care, the immigrant experience, the religious impulse for health care, and urban life. Alan and Deborah Kraut tell the story of this important institution, illuminating the broader history of voluntary nonprofit hospitals created under religious auspices initially to serve poor immigrant communities. Like so many Jewish hospitals in the early half of the twentieth century, “the Beth” cared not only for its own community’s poor and underprivileged, a responsibility grounded in the Jewish traditions of tzedakah (“justice”) and tikkun olam (“to heal the world”), but also for all Newarkers. The Krauts tell the Beth Israel story against the backdrop of twentieth-century medical progress, Newark’s tumultuous history, and the broader social and demographic changes altering the landscape of American cities. Today, the United States, in the midst of another great wave of immigration, once again faces the question of how to provide newcomers with culturally sensitive and economically accessible medical care. Covenant of Care will inform and inspire all those working to meet these demands, offering a compelling look at the creative ways that voluntary hospitals navigated similar challenges throughout the twentieth century. more...

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Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? Paleographical dating has tended to downplay the Scrolls' importance and to distance them from the personages of earliest Christianity, but a carefully worked out theory based on radiocarbon dating and other tests connects more...

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The second edition of this fascinating book is the ideal introduction to the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran and their impact on our understanding of the rise of Christianity.:.; Introduces the Qumran Scrolls to the uninitiated general reader.; Explains how revolutionary the discovery of the Scrolls was and their enduring significance.; Sets the Scrolls within the wider context of Jewish history and religion of the second temple period.; Now expanded to include additional material about the scrolls themselves and recent theories about the community behind them. This book is not available from Blackwell in the United States and the Philippines. more...

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