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Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe
Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe is a major contribution in understanding the cultural processes involved in the emergence and development of the consumer phase of science.
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ISBN: 9780814329313
Communings of the Spirit
Exploring the Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1913-1934
Selections from the diary of the founder of Reconstructionism in America, covering Kaplan's early years as a rabbi, teacher of rabbis, and community leader.
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ISBN: 9780814331163
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ISBN: 9780814325759
"Peering Through the Lattices"
Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period
Kanarfogel makes available for the first time many passages produced by lesser known tosafists and rabbinic figures and integrates the findings of earlier and contemporary scholarship, much of it published only in Hebrew. "
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ISBN: 9780814325315
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ISBN: 9780814339947
Response to Modernity
A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism
Comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement.
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ISBN: 9780814325551
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ISBN: 9780814337554
The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion
Kaplan takes the major formulation of his theological approach, "God as the power that makes for salvation," and demonstrates how it can be used to invigorate the Jewish religion in a changing world.
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ISBN: 9780814325520
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ISBN: 9780814339923
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century
A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century is the first critical examination of the early life of Mordecai M. Kaplan -- the sources of his inspiration, the evolution of his thought as a religious ideologue, and his inner struggles.
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ISBN: 9780814322802
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ISBN: 9780814322796
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Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages
Paperback edition of a favorite text on the literary creativity and communal involvement in the production of the Tosafist corpus.
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ISBN: 9780814333686
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ISBN: 9780814321645
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ISBN: 9780814336533
The Hebrew Goddess
A revised edition containing new chapters on the Shekhina.
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ISBN: 9780814322710
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ISBN: 9780814322215
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ISBN: 9780814338216
The Messiah Texts
Jewish Legends of Three Thousand Years
The Messiah Texts traces the progress of the messianic legend from its biblical beginnings to contemporary expressions.
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ISBN: 9780814318508
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ISBN: 9780814316528
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ISBN: 9780814341919
The Origins of the Modern Jew
Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1824
An excellent overview of the intellectual history of important figures in German Jewry.
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ISBN: 9780814314708
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ISBN: 9780814313152
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ISBN: 9780814337547
Rabbinic Judaism in the Making
The Halakhah from Ezra to Judah I
The study of the evolution of normative Judaism from the time of Ezra (ca. 400 B.C.) to Judah I, the Prince (ca. 200 A.D.).
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ISBN: 9780814344026
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ISBN: 9780814313824
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ISBN: 9780814344019