Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
10 best books like Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (Adina Hoffman): Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages, Apprentice, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, The Jewish Study Bible, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme, Sinai and Zion, The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person, From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
| Author | Jaroslav Pelikan |
| ISBN | 0670033855 |
No book has been more pored over, has been the subject of more commentary & controversy, or had more influence not only on religious beliefs but also on our culture & language. No book has been as widely read. But how did the bible become the book we know? Pelikan takes readers thru the book’s...
| Author | Maggie Anton |
| ISBN | 0452298091 |
Hisdadukh, blessed to be beautiful and learned, is the youngest child of Talmudic sage Rav Hisda. The world around her is full of conflict. Rome, fast becoming Christian, battles Zoroastrian Persia for dominance while Rav Hisda and his colleagues struggle to establish new Jewish traditions after...
| Author | Mark Mazower |
| ISBN | 0375727388 |
Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0195297512 |
The Jewish Study Bible is a one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. Nearly forty scholars worldwide contributed to the translation and interpretation of the Jewish Study Bible, representing the best of Jewish biblical scholarship available today....
| Author | Alan Lew |
| ISBN | 0316739081 |
There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith.The Days of Awe...
| Author | Karl Elliger |
| ISBN | 1598561634 |
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) COMPACT EDITION is identical in content to the standard edition (including the critical apparatus in Latin and the foreword in multiple languages); however, its size makes it exceptionally convenient for the student of Hebrew to carry and use. Its portable...
| Author | Marge Piercy |
| ISBN | 0375704310 |
Winner of the 2000 Paterson Poetry Prize
About Marge Piercy's collection of her old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "The Art of Blessing the Day is an exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and...
Levenson presents an excellent introduction to the Jewish faith as it is represented in scripture. In Sinai & Zion he takes a clear look at the two mountains and the traditions which arose from Jewish experience of them and details their symbolism, meaning, and theological trends which arose:...
| Author | Harold S. Kushner |
| ISBN | 0805242929 |
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
From one of our most trusted spiritual advisers, a thoughtful, illuminating guide to that most fascinating of biblical texts, the book of Job, and what it can teach us about living in a troubled world.
The story of Job is one of unjust things happening...
| Author | Shaye J.D. Cohen |
| ISBN | 0664227430 |
In this new edition of a best-selling classic, Shaye Cohen offers a thorough analysis of Judaism's development from the early years of the Roman Empire to the formative period of rabbinic Judaism. Cohen's synthesis of religion, literature, and history offers deep insight into the nature of Judaism...
| Author | Joseph Telushkin |
| ISBN | 0805242813 |
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
"What is hateful unto you, do not do unto your neighbor. That is the whole Torah, all the rest is commentary. Now, go and study."
This is the most famous teaching of Hillel, one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmudic era. What makes it so extraordinary...
| Author | Amy Dockser Marcus |
| ISBN | 0670038369 |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the genesis of one of the greatest political struggles of our time Searching for the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict, historians for years focused on the British Mandate period (1920–1948). Amy Dockser Marcus, however, demonstrates that the...
| Author | Alisa Solomon |
| ISBN | 0805092609 |
A sparkling and eye-opening history of the Broadway musical that changed the world
In the half-century since its premiere, Fiddler on the Roof has had an astonishing global impact. Beloved by audiences the world over, performed from rural high schools to grand state theaters, Fiddler is...
The Bible with Sources Revealed
| Author | Richard Elliott Friedman |
One of the World's Foremost Bible Experts Offers a Groundbreaking Presentation of the Five Books of Moses
In The Bible with Sources Revealed, Richard Elliott Friedman offers a new, visual presentation of the Five Books of Moses -- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy --...
| Author | Eric H. Cline |
| ISBN | 0195342631 |
Public interest in biblical archaeology is at an all-time high, as television documentaries pull in millions of viewers to watch shows on the Exodus, the Ark of the Covenant, and the so-called Lost Tomb of Jesus. Important discoveries with relevance to the Bible are made virtually every year--during...
| Author | Martin Gilbert |
| ISBN | 0771033699 |
From one of the most popular historians writing today comes a book as fascinating as the bestsellers of Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan.
In this captivating chronicle, Martin Gilbert shines new light on a controversial dilemma in the modern world: the troubled relationship between Jews and...
| Author | Aviya Kushner |
| ISBN | 0385520824 |
Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and debating its meaning over the dinner table. She knew much of it by heart—and was therefore surprised when, while getting her MFA at the University of Iowa, she took the novelist Marilynne Robinson’s...
| Author | Matti Friedman |
| ISBN | 1616200405 |
A true-life thriller about the journey of one of the world's most precious manuscripts--the 10th century annotated Hebrew Bible known as the Aleppo Codex--from its hiding place in an ancient Syrian synagogue to the newly-founded Israel. Using his research, including documents which have been secret...
The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds
The Talmud and the Internet, in which Jonathan Rosen examines the contradictions of his inheritance as a modern American and a Jew, is a moving and exhilarating meditation on modern technology and ancient religious impulses. Blending memoir, religious history and literary reflection Rosen explores...
| Author | Charles R. Lister |
| ISBN | 0190462477 |
The eruption of the anti-Assad revolution in Syria has had many unintended consequences, among which is the opportunity it offered Sunni jihadists to establish a foothold in the heart of the Middle East. That Syria's ongoing civil war is so brutal and protracted has only compounded the situation,...
| Author | Zvi Kolitz |
| ISBN | 0375708405 |
There are two stories here. One is the now legendary tale of a defiant Jew's refusal to abandon God, even in the face of the greatest suffering the world has known, a testament of faith that has taken on an unpredictable and fascinating life of its own and has often been thought to be a direct testament from...
| Author | A.B. Yehoshua |
| ISBN | 0156011166 |
In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business-his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance his business interests at the same time, Ben Attar...
| Author | John J. Collins |
| ISBN | 0800629914 |
In this balanced and thorough introduction to the Hebrew Bible, John J. Collins takes his students on a historical-critical journey through biblical texts. With an accessible yet authoritative tone, he identifies the complex ethical issues raised by the text and challenges his students to understand...
| Author | Joel Kraemer |
| ISBN | 0385512007 |
This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man’s life against the background of the social, religious,...
