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Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon
From the Mishnah to the Talmuds
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon, Volume I is a study of the inclusion of biographical narratives about sages in components of the unfolding canon of Rabbinic Judaism in the formative age. These documents are of the first six centuries C.E. and are exclusive of the two Talmuds. A sage...
Rabbi David
A Documentary Catalogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Rabbinic documents of David, progenitor of the Messiah, carry forward the scriptural narrative of David the king. But he also is turned by Rabbinic writings of late antiquity—from the Mishnah through the Yerushalmi and the Bavli—into a sage. Consequently, the Rabbis’ Messiah is a rabbi. How...
Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism
Fifth Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
This collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009. Neusner takes up three problems in the history of Religions, four essays on fundamental issues in form-history and the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon, and one theological essay. The reason Neusner...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The result for the history of Judaism of a documentary reading of the Rabbinic canonical sources illustrates the working of that hypothesis. It is the first major outcome of that hypothesis, but there are other implications, and a variety of new problems emerge from time to time as the work proceeds....
Martial Metaphors
Soldiers' Perspectives on the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The book draws on letters, diaries, recent books and articles in History, but also relies on multi-disciplinary sources in politics and literature, along transnational comparisons to place the events in a broader perspective. The book invites the reader to embark with the soldiers and some civilians...
The German Jews in America
A Minority within a Minority
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book describes the assimilation and acculturation of a small minority who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century and again in the twentieth century. Gerhard Falk focuses on refugees who fled from Nazi tyranny in the 1930s, immigrated to America, and succeeded despite immense...
by Michael A. Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
This textbook provides concise information, classroom exercises, homework assignments, and speeches to enable college students to master public speaking. There is an emphasis on creating effective thesis sentences, motivational appeals, introductions and conclusions, outlines, and supporting information....
Libation
An Afrikan Ritual of Heritage in the Circle of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and significance of libation, developments and change within the ritual, and its distribution in the Afrikan world. Libation is a liquid offering by and behalf of all humanity, those living and those yet-to-be-born, to the Creator, to other...
by Gilbert Kliman, MD
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Reflective Network Therapy describes a remarkably effective school-based treatment method that harnesses small social networks for the good of seriously emotionally disturbed preschoolers or those with autism spectrum disorders. The book provides an in-depth explanation of the method — including...
Inherent and Instrumental Values
Excursions in Value Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
The essays in this book range broadly over different aspects of value theory and include contributions by Nicholas Rescher, Frances Kamm, Barry Smith, and Jan Narveson. Portions examine the theoretical foundations of values and valuation exploring the rational groundwork for judgments. Other aspects,...
Strategic Defamation of Fethullah Gülen
English vs. Turkish
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Fethullah Gülen is a moderate Turkish Muslim scholar who is known mostly for his education and dialogue activities. The Hizmet Movement, inspired by Gülen, has established hundreds of education and dialogue institutions throughout the world. Several books and hundreds of articles and news reports...
Metaphysics of Infinity
The Problem of Motion and the Infinite Brain
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Since the time of the Greek philosopher Zeno (fifth century BCE), our faculty of analytic understanding has failed to comprehend motion through the ages. The reason is the paradox or contradiction associated with motion. One fundamental contradiction is the conflict between the finite body and the...
Curing the Philosopher's Disease
Reinstating Mystery in the Heart of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Curing the Philosopher's Disease is a philosophical examination of the mysteries surrounding the foundations of science, philosophy, and religion. Much of Western philosophy and science is discussed in order to see our epistemological and metaphysical situation. The love/hate relation philosophers...
Language and State
A Theory of the Progress of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Is the state formed because of a natural course, the making of a social contract, initial conquest, the self-defense of the community or the formation of a class society? This book eloquently argues that the state is not simply formed in one way. It contends that the state is formed because of language....