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Jesus Reclaimed

Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene

By: Rabbi Walter Homolka

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Jesus Reclaimed

Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene

By: Rabbi Walter Homolka

After centuries of persecution, oppression, forced migrations, and exclusion in the name of Christ, the development of a Jewish “Quest for the Historical Jesus” might seem unexpected. This book gives an overview and analysis of the various Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene throughout the centuries, emphasizing the variety of German voices in Anglo-American contexts. It explores the reasons for a steady increase in Jewish interest in Jesus since the end of the eighteenth century, arguing that this growth had a strategic goal: the justification of Judaism as a living faith alongside Christianity.

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1782385800

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9781782385806

Jewish and Israeli Law - An Introduction

By: Shimon Shetreet,Walter Homolka

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Jewish and Israeli Law - An Introduction

By: Shimon Shetreet,Walter Homolka

This book instructively introduces the reader to the basics of Jewish law. It gives a detailed, cutting-edge analysis of contemporary public and private law in the State of Israel, as well as Israel’s legal culture, its system of government, and the roles of its democratic institutions: the executive, parliament, and judiciary. The book examines issues of Holocaust, law and religion, constitutionalization, and equality.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110671867

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9783110671865

How to Do Good & Avoid Evil

A Global Ethic from the Sources of Judaism

By: Rabbi Walter Homolka,Hans Küng

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A Global Ethic from the Sources of Judaism

By: Rabbi Walter Homolka,Hans Küng

Explore how the principles of a global ethic can be found in Judaism and how they can provide the ethical norms for all religions to work together toward a more peaceful humankind. In 1993, the Parliament of the World's Religions endorsed the "Declaration toward a Global Ethic" composed by Hans Küng. In it, representatives from all the world’s religions agreed on principles for a global ethic and committed themselves to directives of nonviolence, respect for life, solidarity, a just economic order, tolerance, and equal rights and partnership between men and women. But the declaration was just the first step. In this impressive volume, Hans Küng, probably the most famous living Roman Catholic theologian, and Rabbi Walter Homolka, head of Germany’s Abraham Geiger rabbinical seminary and distinguished professor, draw on the Jewish tradition to show the riches that Judaism can offer people of all faiths and nonbelievers in achieving these directives. Presenting key sacred texts and theological writings, the authors make the case for binding values and basic moral attitudes that can be found in Judaism’s universal message of a better world. Exploring Judaism’s focus on ethical conduct over declarations of faith, the authors show that making ethical decisions is indispensable in an ever-changing world.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1594734232

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9781594734236

Jewish Identity in Modern Times

Leo Baeck and German Protestantism

By: Walter Homolka,,Albert H. Friedlander

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Jewish Identity in Modern Times

Leo Baeck and German Protestantism

By: Walter Homolka,,Albert H. Friedlander

There is no doubt about Baeck's contribution to Jewish theology in the twentieth century: it has been significant. Without ever departing completely from the ancient wellsprings of orthodoxy, he was a studious observer of the intellectual currents of his time and ambience; under theinfluence of liberal Jewish theology, he drew on and reworked those currents, weaving them into his own theological thought. A special aspect of Baeck's work is that he remained in critical confrontation with Christianity throughout his life, acting as a kind of builder of bridges between the two faiths." (From the Introduction.) It is on this aspect that the author focuses his study inwhich he examines Leo Baeck's critical evaluation of Martin Luther and Protestantism. At the same time Homolka shows how close the intellectual links between liberal Christian and liberal Jewish theology had become before the Holocaust: both sides attempted a new definition of the "essence" of their faiths and were searching for a new identity in an increasingly pluralistic and secular society.

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Berghahn Books

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1800735847

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9781800735842

The Amadeus Book of the Violin

Construction, History and Music

By: Walter Kolneder

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The Amadeus Book of the Violin

Construction, History and Music

By: Walter Kolneder

Available for the first time in English, this book has been considered the best single encyclopedia of the violin for 20 years. All aspects of the violin are covered: construction, history, and literature; violin playing and teaching; and violin virtuosos through the ages.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493083376

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9781493083374

Hanna and Walter

A Love Story

By: Hanna & Walter Kohner,Walter Kohner,Frederick Kohner

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Hanna and Walter

A Love Story

By: Hanna & Walter Kohner,Walter Kohner,Frederick Kohner

Originally published: New York: Random House, 1984.

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iUniverse

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0595465986

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9780595465989

Grimm Pictures

Fairy Tale Archetypes in Eight Horror and Suspense Films

By: Walter Rankin

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Grimm Pictures

Fairy Tale Archetypes in Eight Horror and Suspense Films

By: Walter Rankin

Though Grimm's Fairy Tales was published about 200 years ago, the revered collection of folk stories remains one of the most iconic pieces of children's literature and has had significant influence in modern pop culture. This work examines the many ways that recent films have employed archetypal images, themes, symbols, and structural elements that originated in the most well-known Grimm fairy tales. The author draws similarities between the cannibalistic symbolism of the Grimm brothers' Little Red Cap and the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs and reveals Faustian parallels between Rumpelstiltskin and the 1968 film Rosemary's Baby. Each of eight chapters reveals a similar pairing, and film stills and illustrations are featured throughout the work.

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McFarland

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1476604797

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9781476604794

Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today

By: Walter Homolka

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Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today

By: Walter Homolka

Historical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move “back to the Jewish roots!” For Jewish scholars it was a means to position Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture. As a consequence, Jews now feel more at ease to relate to Jesus as a Jew. For Walter Homolka the Christian challenge now is to formulate a new Christology: between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God, and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity.

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9004331743

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Jesus Reclaimed

Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene

By: Rabbi Walter Homolka

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Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene

By: Rabbi Walter Homolka

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The Gate to Perfection

The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought

By: Rabbi Professor Dr. Walter Homolka

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The Gate to Perfection

The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought

By: Rabbi Professor Dr. Walter Homolka

A timely book: as Israelis and Arabs are moving towards a settlement, this study offers a valuable historical dimension, from the Jewish point of view, to the main issue involved, i.e., the idea of peace. The authors maintain that peace has always played an important role in Jewish thought, that in fact Judaism as a religion is characterized by the striving for peace. They reach this conclusion after having examined a variety of sources, ranging from the biblical texts of Old Israel to the Talmudic tradition and Jewish Philosophy of Religion up until the twentieth century.

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1800736746

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The Gate to Perfection

The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought

By: Rabbi Professor Dr. Walter Homolka

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The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought

By: Rabbi Professor Dr. Walter Homolka

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How to Do Good & Avoid Evil

A Global Ethic from the Sources of Judaism

By: Rabbi Walter Homolka,Hans Küng

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A Global Ethic from the Sources of Judaism

By: Rabbi Walter Homolka,Hans Küng

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1594734232

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Einführung in das Jüdische und Israelische Recht

By: Walter Homolka,Christian Kirchner,Shimon Shetreet

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Einführung in das Jüdische und Israelische Recht

By: Walter Homolka,Christian Kirchner,Shimon Shetreet

This book provides a concise introduction to the basics of Jewish law. It gives a detailed analysis of contemporary public and private law in the State of Israel, as well as Israel's legal culture, its system of government, and the roles of its democratic institutions: the executive, parliament, and judiciary. The book examines issues of Holocaust, law and religion, constitutionalization, and equality. It is the ultimate book for anyone interested in Israeli Law and its politics. Authors Shimon Shetreet is the Greenblatt Professor of Public and International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the President of the International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace and heads the International Project of Judicial Independence. In 2008, the Mt. Scopus Standards of Judicial Independence were issued under his leadership. Between 1988 and 1996, Professor Shetreet served as a member of the Israeli Parliament, and was a cabinet minister under Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. He was senior deputy mayor of Jerusalem between 1999 and 2003. He was a Judge of the Standard Contract Court and served as a member of the Chief Justice Landau Commission on the Israeli Court System. The author and editor of many books on the judiciary, Professor Shetreet is a member of the Royal Academy of Science and Arts of Belgium. Rabbi Walter Homolka PhD (King's College London, 1992), PhD (University of Wales Trinity St. David, 2015), DHL (Hebrew Union College, New York, 2009), is a full professor of Modern Jewish Thought and the executive director of the School of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam (Germany). The rector of the Abraham Geiger College (since 2003) is Chairman of the Leo Baeck Foundation and of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Foundation in Potsdam. In addition, he has served as the executive director of the Masorti Zacharias Frankel College since 2013. The author of "Jüdisches Eherecht" and other publications on Jewish Law holds several distinctions: among them the Knight Commander's Cross of the Austrian Merit Order and the 1st Class Federal Merit Order of Germany. In 2004, President Jacques Chirac admitted Rabbi Homolka to the French Legion of Honor.

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3111751619

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Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today

By: Walter Homolka

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By: Walter Homolka

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Preaching in Judaism and Christianity

Encounters and Developments from Biblical Times to Modernity

By: Alexander Deeg,Walter Homolka,Heinz-Günther Schöttler

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Preaching in Judaism and Christianity

Encounters and Developments from Biblical Times to Modernity

By: Alexander Deeg,Walter Homolka,Heinz-Günther Schöttler

Main description: It is a widespread idea that the roots of the Christian sermon can be found in the Jewish Derasha. But the story of the interrelation of the two homiletical traditions, Jewish and Christian, from New Testament times to the present day is still untold. This book offers the papers of the first international conference (Bamberg, Germany, 6th to 8th March 2007) which brought together Jewish and Christian scholars to discuss Jewish and Christian homiletics in their historical development and relationship and to sketch out common homiletical projects.

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3110196654

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Blood Will Out

By: Walter Kirn

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Blood Will Out

By: Walter Kirn

In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who, one day, would be shockingly unmasked as a brazen serial impostor and brutal double-murderer. This is a one-of-a-kind story of an innocent man duped by a real-life Mr Ripley, taking us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the private club rooms of Manhattan to the courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles.

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1472115902

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Jesus Reclaimed

Jesus Reclaimed

Jewish and Israeli Law - An Introduction

Jewish and Israeli Law - An Introduction

How to Do Good & Avoid Evil

How to Do Good & Avoid Evil

Jewish Identity in Modern Times

Jewish Identity in Modern Times

The Amadeus Book of the Violin

The Amadeus Book of the Violin

Hanna and Walter

Hanna and Walter

Grimm Pictures

Grimm Pictures

Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today

Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today

Jesus Reclaimed

Jesus Reclaimed

The Gate to Perfection

The Gate to Perfection

The Gate to Perfection

The Gate to Perfection

How to Do Good & Avoid Evil

How to Do Good & Avoid Evil

Einführung in das Jüdische und Israelische Recht

Einführung in das Jüdische und Israelische Recht

Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today

Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today

Preaching in Judaism and Christianity

Preaching in Judaism and Christianity

Blood Will Out

Blood Will Out

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