A Rivalry Of Genius: Jewish And Christian Biblical Interpretation In Late Antiquity

By Marc G. Hirshman, Marc Hirshman, Batya Stein

Compares Rabbinic midrash and Patristic exegesis in late antiquity and provides an introduction to the various forms of Patristic literature. By comparing interpretations of the Hebrew Bible by...

A Rivalry Of Genius: Jewish And Christian Biblical Interpretation In Late Antiquity

By Marc G. Hirshman, Marc Hirshman, Batya Stein

Compares Rabbinic midrash and Patristic exegesis in late antiquity and provides an introduction to the various forms of Patristic literature. By comparing interpretations of the Hebrew Bible by...

Jewish Magic Before The Rise Of Kabbalah

By Stein Batya, Yuval Harari, Batya Stein, Harari, Yuval, הררי, יובל, Author

Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 List of Plates 8 Preface 10 Introduction 16 1. Magic and the Study of Religion 28 2. Magic, Mysticism, Religion, and Society: The Study of Early Jewish Ma...

Charles Olson And Alfred North Whitehead: An Essay On Poetry

By Shachar Bram, Batya Stein, Shahar Bram

Annotation Through A Detailed And Thoughtful Study Of The Impact Of Alfred North Whitehead's Philosophy On Olson's Aesthetic Theory, This Book Points Out The Conceptual Unity Underlying What Seems...

Studies On Astral Magic In Medieval Jewish Thought

By Dov Schwartz, Batya Stein, David Louvish, Natalie And Isidore Friedman Chair For Teaching Rav Joseph B Soloveitchik'S Thought Dov Schwartz, Dov Schwartz, David Louvish, Batya Stein

The book describes a fascinating encounter between astrology and magic, exposing how Hermetic magic seeped into Jewish literature and Jewish philosophy. Following astral magic in its convoluted cou...

Faith At The Crossroads: A Theological Profile Of Religious Zionism

By Dov Schwartz, Batya Stein

Religious Zionism emerged as an organized political movement in 1902, rebelling against the ethos of passivity endorsed by a mostly anti-Zionist Eastern European Orthodoxy. The book presents religi...

Religious Zionism And The Six-Day War: From Realism To Messianism

By Dov Schwartz, Batya Stein, Avi Sagi, Abraham Sagi, AVI SCHWARTZ, DOV SAGI

This book offers a new insight into the political, social, and religious conduct of religious-Zionism, whose consequences are evident in Israeli society today. Before the Six-Day War, religious-Zio...

The Return Of The Absent Father

By Shira Stav, Batya Stein, Haim Weiss, Haim Weiss; Shira Stav

The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of seven stories from tractate Ketubot in the Babylonian Talmud, in which sages abandon their homes, wives, and families and go away...

Web Of Life

By Batya Stein, Galit Hasan-Rokem

Return Of The Absent Father

By Shira Stav, Batya Stein, Haim Weiss