Author(s): Christine Hayes
Awarded the Salo Baron Prize for a first book in Jewish Thought and Literature, by the American Academy for Jewish Research, 1999.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...
Author(s): Edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker & Duncan Ryuken Williams
Given the challenges of the environmental crisis, Buddhism’s teaching of the interrelatedness of all life forms may be critical to the recovery of human reciprocity with nature. In this new work, twenty religionists and environmentalists examine Buddhism’s understanding of the intricate...
Author(s): Leo G. Perdue, Joseph Blenkinsopp, John J. Collins, Carol L. Meyers
Four respected scholars of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism provide a clear portrait of the family in ancient Israel. Important theological and ethical implications are made for the family today.
The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of...
Author(s): John J. Collins
Jewish wisdom flourished under Hellenism in the books of Ben Sira and the wisdom of Solomon, as well as in a recently discovered sapiential text from Qumran. In this book, internationally known author John Collins presents a compelling description and analysis of these three texts and their...
Author(s): John Corrigan (Author), Frederick Mathewson Denny (Author), Carlos Eire (Author), Martin S. Jaffee (Author)
This book compares Judaism, Christianity, and Islam using seven common themes, which are equally relevant to each tradition. Provoking critical thinking, this book addresses the cultural framework of religious meanings. It explores similarities and differences among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam...
Author(s): Jennifer Herdt
This book explores Hume’s concern with the destructiveness of religious factions and his efforts to develop, in his moral philosophy, a solution to factional conflict. Sympathy and the related capacity to enter into foreign points of view are crucial to the neutralization of religious zeal...
Author(s): Jon Butler (Editor), Harry S. Stout (Editor)
At the end of the twentieth century, religion seems to be ubiquitous in America. Its existence and influence are especially apparent in our politics, but its presence is most deeply felt in our personal lives and experience. Was it always this way?
Offering a rich selection of classic and recent...
Author(s): John J. Collins
This volume brings together essays written by John J. Collins since the mid-1970s. The articles cover major aspects of the discussion of Jewish apocalypticism, in relation to the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Hellenistic-Roman world. A section of the book is devoted to studies on the book...
Is morality too difficult for human beings? Kant said that it was, except with God's assistance. Contemporary moral philosophers have usually discussed the question without reference to Christian doctrine, and have either diminished the moral demand, exaggerated human moral capacity, or tried to...
Author(s): Kathryn Tanner
Since the 1970s exciting new directions in the study of culture have erupted to critique and displace earlier, largely static notions. These more dynamic models stress the indeterminate, fragmented, even conflictual character of cultural processes and completely alter the framework for thinking...
