An authoritative look at Judaism's historical sweep and distinctive religious dimensions, showing how it developed out of the Hebrew Bible and has diversified throughout history and throughout the world.
In the story of Samyaza and Azazel, Metatron already existed as the messenger of the Lord, meaning, he existed as an angel within some form of archaic Judaism before he became Enoch incarnate in the Ascension of Moses.
Probes the nature of God, revelation, and response in an investigation of the teachings, attitudes, and spiritual needs which led to the development of Judaism. Bibliogs
A translation of the famous 18th-century German treatise with introduction and detailed commentary
Religion, on the other hand, influences attitudes or convictions (Gesinnungen) of specific individuals. ... “Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths MOSES MENDELSSOHN'S OTHER ENLIGHTENMENT / 81.
Pondering the Imponderable explores the philosophical and theological problems of God and their implications from a Judaic perspective including the attempts at knowing the unknowable and naming the unnamable that have been articulated over ...
One of the central assertions of the book was that the history of the West, a history that is itself the last avatar of universal history, unavoidably rests upon violence and war.
For an introduction to the principles of Jewish politics in the Middle Ages see David Biale, Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History (New York, 1987), 34–86. 2. For these assumptions see the discussion in Eli Lederhendler, ...
works of such men as Abraham Geiger, Nahman Korchmal, and Asher Ginzburg. ... In the area of contemporary religious Jews, the revelation of Yahweh to Moses through the Torah is appreciated as the centering of Jewish faith.
Even before the revelation of the Law, He sent prophets to the nations, as our Sages of blessed memory explain, ... The Enlightenment religious leader Rabbi Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) consistently held universal views and rejected ...