Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians (Övrig)
avDavid Biale
ISBN: 9780520257986 - UTGIVEN: 2008-09-01Blood contains extraordinary symbolic power in both Judaism and Christianity - as the blood of sacrifice, of Jesus, of the Jewish martyrs, of menstruation, and more. Yet, though they share the same literary, cultural, and religious origins, on the question of blood the two religions have followed qu[...]
Not In The Heavens (Inbunden)
avDavid Biale
ISBN: 9780691147239 - UTGIVEN: 2010-10-18Traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Presenting the history of Judaism from the Bible onwards, this book shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism [...]
Cultures of the Jews: A New History (Inbunden)
avDavid Biale
ISBN: 9780805241310 - UTGIVEN: 2002-10WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
Who are "the Jews"? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their[...]
