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New Serial Titles
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Convergence of Judaism and Islam
The Convergence of Judaism and Islam offers a fresh examination of Muslim and Jewish cultural interactions during the medieval and early modern periods.
Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah
The principal thrust of this book is to discover whether, and to what extent, the methods of modern scholarship can become part and parcel of the study of Torah.
Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suffering
This collection of essays seeks to understand the tension between contemporary and traditional elements in the thought, practices, and life of Modern Orthodox Jewry. Together, they are a fascinating study of the balance that occurs between modernity and traditionalism, whereby faith and practice emerge from the encounter adapted but not wholly transformed.
Between Muslim and Jew
Steven Wasserstrom undertakes a detailed analysis of the "creative symbiosis" that existed between Jewish and Muslim religious thought in the eighth through tenth centuries. Wasserstrom brings the disciplinary approaches of religious studies to bear on questions that have been examined previously by historians and by specialists in Judaism and Islam. His thematic approach provides an example of how difficult questions of influence might be opened up for broader examination. In Part I, "Trajectories," the author explores early Jewish-Muslim interactions, studying such areas as messianism, professions, authority, and class structure and showing how they were reshaped during the first centuries...
Judaism and Islam
This volume, which is a tribute to Professor William Brinner, is a collection of essays that deal with the interaction of Judaism and Islam over generations from different perspectives: historical, religious, philosophical, linguistic and literary.
