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Life As Creation

A Jewish Way of Thinking About the World

By: Shalom Freedman

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Life As Creation

A Jewish Way of Thinking About the World

By: Shalom Freedman

Life as Creation: A Jewish Way of Thinking about the World is a collection of aphorisms centered around the biblical concept of creation. It is a collection of provocative thoughts centered on themes such as Creation and Chosenness, Ultimate Limitations in Human Creative Powers, and Creation as Making One's Own Life in Freedom. It is a meditation intended to help the reader understand the purpose of life as a creative being.

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Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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1461662451

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Out of Slavery

Abolition and After

By: Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward

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Out of Slavery

Abolition and After

By: Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward

First published in 1985. This volume is a collection of lectures and conference papers given during the William Wilberforce 150th anniversary celebrations at the University of Hull in 1983.

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Routledge

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1134727097

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Imperial Alibis

Rationalizing U.S. Intervention After the Cold War

By: Stephen Rosskamm Shalom

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Imperial Alibis

Rationalizing U.S. Intervention After the Cold War

By: Stephen Rosskamm Shalom

Lucidly argued and carefully documented, Stephen Shalom's study of the pretexts for intervention is an invaluable guide to the recent past and unlikely future".--Noam Chomsky, author of "Necessary Illusions". Lightning Print On Demand Title

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South End Press

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0896084485

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Studies in the Book of the Covenant in the light of cuneiform and biblical law

By: Shalom Paul

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Studies in the Book of the Covenant in the light of cuneiform and biblical law

By: Shalom Paul

Preliminary material /Editors STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT IN THE LIGHT OF CUNEIFORM AND BIBLICAL LAW -- INTRODUCTION /Editors STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT IN THE LIGHT OF CUNEIFORM AND BIBLICAL LAW -- CUNEIFORM LAW /Editors STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT IN THE LIGHT OF CUNEIFORM AND BIBLICAL LAW -- CUNEIFORM PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES TO LEGAL COLLECTIONS /Editors STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT IN THE LIGHT OF CUNEIFORM AND BIBLICAL LAW -- THE PROBLEM OF PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT AND LEADING FEATURES OF BIBLICAL LAW /Editors STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT IN THE LIGHT OF CUNEIFORM AND BIBLICAL LAW -- ANNOTATIONS TO THE LAWS OF THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT /Editors STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT IN THE LIGHT OF CUNEIFORM AND BIBLICAL LAW -- SUMMARY /Editors STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT IN THE LIGHT OF CUNEIFORM AND BIBLICAL LAW -- VERSE ARRANGEMENT OF THE LAWS OF THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT /Editors STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT IN THE LIGHT OF CUNEIFORM AND BIBLICAL LAW -- CUNEIFORM AND BIBLICAL LEGAL FORMULATIONS /Editors STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT IN THE LIGHT OF CUNEIFORM AND BIBLICAL LAW -- BIBLIOGRAPHY /Editors STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT IN THE LIGHT OF CUNEIFORM AND BIBLICAL LAW -- INDEX OF SOURCES /Editors STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT IN THE LIGHT OF CUNEIFORM AND BIBLICAL LAW.

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BRILL

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900427541X

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9789004275416

Isaiah 40-66

A Commentary

By: Shalom M. Paul

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Isaiah 40-66

A Commentary

By: Shalom M. Paul

In-depth exegesis from a renowned Hebrew scholar This Eerdmans Critical Commentary volume is Shalom Paul's comprehensive, all-inclusive study of the oracles of an anonymous prophet known only as Second Isaiah who prophesied in the second half of the sixth century B.C.E. Paul examines Isaiah 40–66 through a close reading of the biblical text, offering thorough exegesis of the historical, linguistic, literary, and theological aspects of the prophet's writings. He also looks carefully at intertextual influences of earlier biblical and extrabiblical books, draws on the contributions of medieval Jewish commentators, and supports the contention that Second Isaiah should include chapters 55–66, thus eliminating the need to demarcate a Third Isaiah.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467435511

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9781467435512

The Wiles of Women/The Wiles of Men

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife in Ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic Folklore

By: Shalom Goldman

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The Wiles of Women/The Wiles of Men

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife in Ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic Folklore

By: Shalom Goldman

One of the world's oldest recorded folktales tells the story of a handsome young man and the older woman in whose house he resides. Overcome by her feelings for him, the woman attempts to seduce him. When he turns her down she is enraged, and to her husband she accuses the young man of attacking her. The husband, seemingly convinced of his wife's innocence, has the young man punished. But it is precisely that punishment that leads to the hero's vindication and eventual rise to power and prominence. In the West we know this tale--classified in folklore as the Potiphar's Wife motif--from its vivid narration in the Hebrew Bible. But as Shalom Goldman demonstrates in this book, the Bible's is only one telling of a story that appears in the scriptures and folklore of many peoples and cultures, in many different eras, including ancient Egypt, classical Greece, and ancient Mesopotamia, as well as post-Biblical Jewish literature, the Qur'an, and Inuit culture. Goldman compares and contrasts the treatment of this motif especially in the literature and lore of the ancient Near East, Biblical Israel, and early Islam, at the same time touching on gender issues--the status of women in Middle Eastern societies and the varying constructions of male-female relationships--and the vexed question of "originality" in the narratives of the monotheistic traditions.

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State University of New York Press

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143840431X

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9781438404318

Concepts at Work

On the Linguistic Infrastructure of World Politics

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

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Concepts at Work

On the Linguistic Infrastructure of World Politics

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

Concepts are socially and linguistically constructed and used for multiple purposes, such as justifying war in the name of democracy; or, using the idea of democracy to resist Western intervention and influence. In this fascinating and novel edited collection, Piki Ish-Shalom and his team of authors interrogate the “conceptions of concepts” in international relations. Using theoretical frameworks from Gramsci and Bourdieu, among others, the authors show that not interrogating the meaning of the language we use to talk about international relations obscures the way we understand (or portray) IR. The authors examine self-determination, winning in war, avoidance of war, military design and reform agenda, vagueness in political discourse, “blue economy,” friendship, and finally, the very idea of the “international community” itself. As the author asserts, Bourdieu’s sociology of field and Gramsci’s political theory combined “offer us a sociopolitical theory of relations of power and domination concealed by doxic knowledge and taken-for-granted rules, in which essential contested concepts and political-serving conceptions can and do play an important role.”

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University of Michigan Press

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047212868X

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9780472128686

Beyond the Veil of Knowledge

Triangulating Security, Democracy, and Academic Scholarship

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

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Beyond the Veil of Knowledge

Triangulating Security, Democracy, and Academic Scholarship

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

Is there a need to remodel constructivism to be more politically attuned? Author Piki Ish-Shalom calls for an activist academy that engages society and the polity to prevent the watering down of democracy, while helping to create a space for criticism. In this book, he suggests several concrete measures for this engagement within three spheres: individual theoretical work, the academic community as a whole, and within society and the polity. Beyond the Veil of Knowledge suggests that essentially contested concepts are a key medium that politicians use to try to minimize public resistance to their political goals. For constructivists, this means that the social construction of both social knowledge and the social world can be understood as the sociopolitical construction of knowledge and the sociopolitical world.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472131206

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9780472131204

Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus

By: Alexander Clark,Shalom Lappin

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Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus

By: Alexander Clark,Shalom Lappin

This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues. Critically examines the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus - the theory that the linguistic input which children receive is insufficient to explain the rich and rapid development of their knowledge of their first language(s) through general learning mechanisms Focuses on formal learnability properties of the class of natural languages, considered from the perspective of several learning theoretic models The only current book length study of arguments for the poverty of the stimulus which focuses on the computational learning theoretic aspects of the problem

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444390554

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Early Israel

Cultic Praxis, God, and the Sôd Hypothesis

By: Alex Shalom Kohav

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Early Israel

Cultic Praxis, God, and the Sôd Hypothesis

By: Alex Shalom Kohav

Early Israel offers the most sweeping reinterpretation of the Pentateuch since the nineteenth-century Documentary Hypothesis. Engaging a dozen-plus modern academic disciplines—from anthropology, biblical studies, Egyptology and semiotics, to linguistics, cognitive poetics and consciousness studies; from religious studies, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis and literary criticism, to mysticism studies, cognitive psychology, phenomenology and philosophy of mind—it wrests from the Pentateuch an outline of the heretofore undiscovered ancient Israelite mystical-initiatory tradition of the First Temple priests. The book effectively launches a new research area: Pentateuchal esoteric mysticism, akin to a "center" or "organizing principle" discussed in biblical theology. The recovered priestly system is discordant vis-à-vis the much-later rabbinical project. This volume appeals to a diverse academic community, from Biblical and Jewish studies to literary studies, religious studies, anthropology, and consciousness studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000777448

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9781000777444

Democratic Peace

A Political Biography

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

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Democratic Peace

A Political Biography

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

The so-called ivory tower is not—and never has been—isolated from real-world politics

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University of Michigan Press

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0472118765

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Life As Creation

A Jewish Way of Thinking About the World

By: Shalom Freedman

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Life As Creation

A Jewish Way of Thinking About the World

By: Shalom Freedman

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Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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God's Sacred Tongue

Hebrew and the American Imagination

By: Shalom Goldman

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God's Sacred Tongue

Hebrew and the American Imagination

By: Shalom Goldman

In a comprehensive examination of how Christian scholars in the United States received, interpreted, and understood Hebrew texts and the Jewish experience, Shalom Goldman explores Hebraism's relationship to American society. By linking history, theology, and literature from the colonial period through the twentieth century, Goldman illuminates the religious and cultural roots of American interest in the Middle East. God's Sacred Tongue is structured around a sequence of biographical and intellectual portraits of individuals including Jonathan Edwards, Isaac Nordheimer, Professor George Bush (an ancestor of President George W. Bush), and twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson. Since the colonial period, America has been perceived as a western Promised Land with emotional, spiritual, and physical links to the Promised Land of biblical history. Goldman gives evidence from scholarship, diplomacy, journalism, the history of higher education, and the arts to show that this perception is linked to the role Hebrew and the Bible have played in American cultural history. The book's final section takes up the story of American Christian Zionism, among whose Protestant adherents political Zionism found much of its strongest support. Religious and cultural figures such as William Rainey Harper and Reinhold Niebuhr are among those who exemplify the centuries-old ties between America, the Land of Promise, and Israel, the Promised Land.

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UNC Press Books

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1469620235

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9781469620237

Keeper of the Flame

The Life and Times of Isaac Shalom

By: Isaac Richard Shalom,Jeffrey Michael Beal

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Keeper of the Flame

The Life and Times of Isaac Shalom

By: Isaac Richard Shalom,Jeffrey Michael Beal

The world was reeling from the unimaginable calamity of the Holocaust. Yet, another tragedy was unfolding, centuries in the making. Along the shores of the Mediterranean languished a vast Jewish population in spiritual hibernation, barely aware of their heritage. The forgotten million had to be awakened, reclaimed for the Jewish people, and Isaac Shalom dedicated his life and fortune to that task. Keeper of the flame is the true story of an immigrant's journey from poverty to fortune and his hand in the salvation of a nation. It is also the story of the Sephardim, almost unknown in the West. An inspiring tale for all readers."--Back cover.

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1365752194

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Crossing the River

By: Shalom Eilati

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Crossing the River

By: Shalom Eilati

Shalom Eilati was born in 1933 in Kovno, Lithuania. He immigrated to Palestine in 1946.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817316310

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9780817316310

The Maggid Speaks

Favorite Stories and Parables of Rabbi Sholom Schwadron, Shlita, Maggid of Jerusalem

By: Paysach J. Krohn,Shalom Mordekhai Shvadron (ha-Kohen.)

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The Maggid Speaks

Favorite Stories and Parables of Rabbi Sholom Schwadron, Shlita, Maggid of Jerusalem

By: Paysach J. Krohn,Shalom Mordekhai Shvadron (ha-Kohen.)

The tradition of the Maggid the speaker, storyteller, and profound ethicist has been best exemplified by Rabbi Shalom Schwadron, the great Maggid of Jerusalem. This book captures his eloquence and humor.

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Mesorah Publications

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089906230X

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Keeper of the Flame

By: Isaac Shalom

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Keeper of the Flame

By: Isaac Shalom

KEEPER OF THE FLAME is the true story of an immigrant's journey from poverty to fortune and his hand in the salvation of a nation. It is also the story of the Sephardim, almost unknown in the West. An inspiring tale for all readers.

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Lulu.com

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1365748987

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Love Like Fire and Water

A Guide to Jewish Meditation

By: Shalom Dovber Schneerson Ne

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Love Like Fire and Water

A Guide to Jewish Meditation

By: Shalom Dovber Schneerson Ne

This book is in a category of its own. It is the authoritative handbook of Jewish meditation. This invaluable technique was nearly lost in the holocaust of European Jewry, but R' Sterne has brought it back from the edge of extinction by translating this seminal work from the Chasidic master, the Rebbe Rashab of Lubavitch (1860-1920). Features a full English translation, many diagrams and tables to clarify spiritual levels, a full commentary bringing the esoteric material closer to our modern consciousness, and two appendices with extensive scholarly notes. A must for the serious Jewish English library, now for the first time available in softback format.

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Jerusalem Connection Press

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1732107955

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9781732107953

Foreskin's Lament

A Memoir

By: Shalom Auslander

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Foreskin's Lament

A Memoir

By: Shalom Auslander

An intimate account of the author's youth in a strict Orthodox community describes his dysfunctional family's vengeful personification of God, his exile to reform school after a childhood misdemeanor, and his efforts to make sense of his religious beliefs while connecting with the outside world. Reprint.

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Riverhead Books

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1594483337

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9781594483332

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