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Born Again
Oestermann, a Dane by birth who has lived in Israel since 1961, presents 35 brief human interest stories about Israel's ordinary and extraordinary citizens, including a man who leads treks in the desert, an Israeli woman whose life was saved by an Arab physician, and Israeli transsexual singer Dana International. The volume includes bandw photos; it lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Among the Host of Heaven
During the past two generations, there have been many studies on the structure, organization, and "function" of the gods of the Levantine and ancient Near Eastern worlds. In this important study, Lowell Handy provides new directions for thinking on this crucial topic, arguing that the structure of the pantheon worshiped in Syria-Palestine mirrored the social structure of the city-states in that region. While many recent studies have investigated the relations of the gods in both biblical and extra-biblical texts from the area, Handy shows that the pantheon functioned as a bureaucracy. This perspective may well be the primary key for understanding hierarchy among the gods.
Life-long Education in Israel
Collection of essays on continuing education in Israel - describes the role of adult education in the social integration of immigrants and lists programmes and practices applied such as the use of mass media, the counselling of low income parents, education and vocational training in the framework of military service, literacy training and training courses in the hebrew language. One-page bibliography and illustrations.
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality
This book offers a range of analyses and interpretations covering the major areas of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook's thought. Among the issues discussed are: his relationship to the Jewish mystical, philosophical, and halakhic traditions; poetry and spirituality; harmonism and pluralism; tolerance and its limits; and Zionism, messianism, and politics.
Tradition in Transition
This book is an investigation of innovative uses of the Hebrew tradition in the early Persian period as represented by the prophetic corpora of Haggai and Zechariah 1-8.
Between Jew and Arab
An exploration of the fascinating Jewish thinker Simon Rawidowicz and his provocative views on Arab refugees and the fate of Israel
German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics
Since the Enlightenment period, German-Jewish intellectuals have been prominent voices in the multi-facetted discourse on the reinterpretation of Jewish tradition in light of modern thinking. Paul Mendes-Flohr, one of the towering figures of current scholarship on German-Jewish intellectual history, has made invaluable contributions to a better understanding of the religious, cultural and political dimensions of these thinkers’ encounter with German and European culture, including the tension between their loyalty to Judaism and the often competing claims of non-Jewish society and culture. This volume assembles essays by internationally acknowledged scholars in the field who intend to hono...
Faith at the Crossroads
The book exposes the theological foundations of religious-Zionism. Relying on a rigorous analysis of new primary sources, Schwartz argues that this movement strove to build a new religious consciousness, in light of the Jewish national renaissance in the twentieth century.
