Herring: A Global History
Book
For such a small fish, the herring has played an enormous role in history. Since the Middle Ages...
Ben-Hur (2016)
Movie
Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur, wrongly accused of treason by his adopted brother Messala of the Roman...
Epic Historical period drama Remake Reimagining
My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (1996)
Movie
A powerful account of an astonishing slice of Holocaust history, told with poignant intimacy by the...
The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Book
One of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written, The...
Apocalypse Against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism
Book
The year 167 B.C.E. marked the beginning of a period of intense persecution for the people of Judea,...
Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza: Reason, Religion, and Autonomy
Book
Many pagan, Jewish, Christian and Muslim philosophers from Antiquity to the Enlightenment made no...
Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust: Between Destruction and Construction
Book
This book draws on historical and sociological arguments to explore, for the first time, the impact...
Matthew's Theology of Fulfillment, its Universality and its Ethnicity: God's New Israel as the Pioneer of God's New Humanity
Book
Waetjen's examines the Jewish context and intertestamental literature behind the gospel of Matthew...
An Early History of Compassion: Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism
Book
In this book, Francoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by...
Historical and Biblical Israel: The History, Tradition, and Archives of Israel and Judah
Reinhard G. Kratz and Paul Michael Kurtz
Book
At the center of this book lies a fundamental yet unanswered question: under which historical and...