Worship and Ethics

Worship and Ethics
Author: Max Kadushin
Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781586840921

Describes how Halakah, or Jewish Law, enables the individual to achieve religious experience.

The Rabbinic Mind

The Rabbinic Mind
Author: Max Kadushin
Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781586840945

Explores the wider aspects of the rabbinic mind.

With Perfect Faith

With Perfect Faith
Author: J. David Bleich
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Total Pages: 716
Release: 1983
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780870688911

Representative selections from the writings of major medieval Jewish philosophers are used to explain and heighten awareness of crucial areas of Jewish belief. They refute the notion that Judaism has no dogmas.

A Rabbinic Anthology

A Rabbinic Anthology
Author: C. G. Montefiore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 967
Release: 2012-07-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108048129

From 1938, an essential work of twentieth-century Jewish religious scholarship by the influential writer and social activist, C. G. Montefiore.

Qumran Prayer and Religious Poetry

Qumran Prayer and Religious Poetry
Author: Nitzan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2018-11-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004350136

Qumran Prayer and Religious Poetry represents the first attempt to undertake a systematic, comprehensive study of the liturgical and poetic texts which were discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran. The collections of prayers, blessings and hymns indicate that fixed prayers were already customary within Judaism during the period of the Second Temple within sectarian circles. In the light of the prayer texts from Qumran the author conducts a systematic study of Jewish prayer beginning with its biblical traditions, through its development during the Second Temple period, and down to rabbinic prayer. By means of comparative literary analysis, the author is able to elucidate the relationship of the Qumran texts to forms and motifs found in parallel text types from various periods and circles within Judaism. This volume provides the reader with tools for a renewed study of the history of prayer in Judaism in the light of new textual evidence from the Second Temple period.

Moses Maimonides on the Causes of Symptoms

Moses Maimonides on the Causes of Symptoms
Author: J. O. Leibowitz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre:
ISBN: 0520312074

The subject of this book is a treatise by Maimonides (1135 - 1204)--Jewish philosopher and at one time physician to the court of Egypt--commonly known as De causis accidentium. The treatise is presented here for the first time in a multilingual critical edition that includes the Hebrew, Arabic and medieval Latin texts as well as commentaries on each of them. The incentive for this publication was the recent discovery of a thirteenth-century Hebrew translation of the treatise, reproduced here in facsimile. Neither the Hebrew nor the Latin texts have previously been published in full. Because the editors have kept in mind the wider issues, this volume is congruent with present-day research on the transmission of ancient knowlege in the Middle Ages. Although his treatise was intended merely to treat specific questions involving a certain patient, Maimonides discusses several medical subjects, such as problems involving the circulatory system, the digestive organs and general dietetics, psychiatry, and specific aspects of physiology. A special feature of the volume is the editors' running commentary, based on the Arabic original as well as on various medieval translations, and designed to clarify some of the obscurities of the text, particularly its medical aspects. The editors suggest that Maimonides may have been familiar with such modern concepts as hemoconcentration and the use of psychotropic drugs. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.