Human Agents of Cosmic Power: Hellenistic Judaism and the Synoptic Tradition 9781474266284, 9781474230445, 9781474230452

Cosmic Power 9781787135765

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Judaism and Human Geography 9781644695777

Judaism is a religion that imposes many practical commandments on its believers, pertaining to all spheres of life. The

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Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition 9780300152333

How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture?  Drawing on the Jewis

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The Archaeology of Human Ancestry: Power, Sex and Tradition 041511862X, 9780415118620

Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our fo

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The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism: Essays on Early Jewish Literature and History 3110373025, 9783110373028

This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively

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Gospels and Tradition: Studies on Redaction Criticism of the Synoptic Gospels 0801083265

Using Mark as a laboratory, Stein identifies the most profitable ways redaction criticism can be used, while also distin

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Human agents and social structures 9780719095191

This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that ce

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Warding Off Evil: Apotropaic Tradition in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Synoptic Gospels 3161552636, 9783161552632

In this study, Michael J. Morris examines aspects of synoptic gospel demonology; specifically, human responses to demoni

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Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State 9780674487765, 0674487761

A biochemist by profession, a polymath by inclination and erudition, Yeshayahu Leibowitz has been, since the early 1940s

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The Power of Psalms in Post-Biblical Judaism: Liturgy, Ritual and Community (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 118) 9004678271, 9789004678279

This collection of original reflections by leading scholars demonstrates with vivid examples the vital importance of the

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