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	Judaism
		Judaism is often used for the whole tradition of the religion of the Jews.
		Judaism was surpassed only by the religion of Akhenaten and Zoroastrianism as the first monotheistic religions in the world.
		Judaism is a religion of "waiting", waiting for Messiah, the god sent ruler who will liberate the Jews and bring back justice and security to the earth.
	i-cias.com /e.o/judaism.htm (2559 words)

	Ancient Judaism (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ancient Judaism, also known as Ancient Palestine: Society and Religion, is a book written by Maximilian Weber, a German economist and sociologist, in early the 20th century.
		The original edition was in German - the essays on Ancient Judaism appeared originally in the 1917-1919 issues of the Archiv fur Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialforschung.
		Weber notes that Judaism not only fathered Christianity and Islam, but was crucial to the rise of modern Occident state, as its influence were as important to those of Hellenistic and Roman cultures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancient_Judaism_(book) (914 words)

	Judaism
		Its name is derived from Judah, a region in the southern part of ancient Israel, which distinguishes it from other ancient developments of Yahwism such as the Rechabites, a small ultra-strict separatist sect, and the Samaritans.
		By the first century BCE there were several varieties of Palestinian Judaism, including the Sadducees, Essenes, Scribes, Pharisees, Zealots and Herodians, defined for the most part by their relation to the Temple at Jerusalem.
		The main challenge to Orthodox Judaism came in the eighteenth century as a result of the threat to traditional religion posed by rationalists of the European Enlightenment.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/judaism/geness.html (972 words)

	Judaism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The [[Star of David, a common symbol of Jews and Judaism]] Judaism is the religion and culture of the Jewish people and one of the first recorded monotheistic faiths.
		Orthodox Judaism holds that the Torah was written by God and dictated to Moses, and that the laws within it are binding and unchanging.
		From the context of the laws in the book of Leviticus, the purpose of kashrut is related to ritual purity and holiness.
	judaism.iqnaut.net (7047 words)

	URI - United Religions Initiative
		Judaism is a spirituality which indeed gave birth to Christianity, and later played a role during the emergence of Islam.
		Thus Judaism is characterized as a religion of deed, a "Way" by which human beings are capable of understanding and responding to God's teaching.
		In Judaism as it developed, prayer services emerged which recapitulated the main stories and themes of Judaism, from the universal Creation by the Universal God to the Revelation of God's Teaching to Moses and the people at Mount Sinai to the Redemption of Israel and all humanity.
	www.uri.org /Judaism_Portrait.html (891 words)

	Great World Religions: Judaism (Detailed Description)
		However Judaism is defined, the beliefs, practices, attitudes, and institutions of Jews through the ages display a striking diversity, despite the fact that all would ascribe to a common heritage.
		Judaism's calendar is arguably the most important unifying factor in what is otherwise a frequently fragmented religious community.
		Their names were Hillel and Shammai, and he asks them, Teach me all of Judaism as I am standing on one leg.' Now, the first rabbi, Shammai, has no patience for such a frivolous request, and he bangs him over the head with a rod that he happened to have in his hand.
	www.teach12.com /ttc/assets/coursedescriptions/6103.asp (1063 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 16, No. 4 - January 1960 - BOOK REVIEW - Ancient Judaism and the New Testament
		Herein Grant deals with the Synagogue and its prayers, the "theology" of ancient Judaism, its Messianic hope, and finally with characteristic features of Jewish apocalyptic.
		Though the nascent Church was strongly influenced by apocalypticism during the first and second generations, it had by the end of the second century sloughed off this element.
		"Judaism, happily, has never been overwhelmed by any system of dogmatic theology, and I for one wish the Christian church were equally free from it" (p.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jan1960/v16-4-bookreview6.htm (374 words)

	Harvard University Press \| Ancient History
		This book, by reason of its scrupulous, balanced scholarship and quietly reasoned argument, will be of lasting value not only to scholars but to anyone interested in questions of race and historical and social perceptions of race.
		This book cannot fail to be challenging, and not only to the general reader...[The era covered in this study] was perhaps the most important in Greek history and indeed one of the most significant in all history.
		This book focuses on a famously resilient culture caught between two disruptive acts of sacrilege: ancient Judaism between the destruction of the First Temple (by the Babylonians) and the destruction of the Second Temple (by the Romans).
	www.hup.harvard.edu /books/hist-ancient.html (3334 words)

	Judaism eBooks - Israel Abrahams - Visit eBookMall Today!
		The aim of this little book is to present in brief outline some of the leading conceptions of the religion familiar since the Christian Era under the name Judaism.
		Judaism, then, is here taken to represent that later development of the Religion of Israel which began with the reorganisation after the Babylonian Exile (444 B.C.), and was crystallised by the Roman Exile (during the first centuries of the Christian Era).
		The aim of this book is to present some of the leading conceptions of the religion familiar since the Cristian Era under the name Judaism.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebooks/judaism-abrahams-ebooks.htm (880 words)

	Halakhah
		Rituals and Ritual Theory in Ancient Israel by Ithamar Gruenwald (Brill Reference Library of Ancient Judaism, 10: Brill Academic) in many ways the first of its kind, addresses the issue of rituals and their embedded ritual theory, in the religion of ancient Israel.
		The book begins with a general discussion of what rituals are, and argues that the ritual theory of each ritual is not in any general theory of ritual but embedded in the ritual act itself.
		The book is of interest to scholars in the areas of Halakhah (law and ritual), religious studies, and the anthropology of religion.
	www.wordtrade.com /religion/judaism/halakhahR.htm (1059 words)

	Amazon.com: Ancient Israelite Religion: Books: Susan Niditch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She is particularly good at capturing and evoking an aspect of ancient Judaism in a sentence or a phrase.
		On balance, though, this is a first-rate introduction, for undergraduate and graduate students and all serious students of Judaism, to the social, cultural, intellectual, and spiritual underpinnings of the Hebrew Bible.
		Finally, although scholars of ancient Israelite religion should be primarily concerned with the prima facie evidence, I would also like to believe that Second Temple and Mishnaic Judaism are a continuation of ancient Israelite religion and certainly did not arise in a vacuum.
	www.amazon.com /Ancient-Israelite-Religion-Susan-Niditch/dp/0195091280 (2612 words)

	Department of Religion • Boston University • College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
		Professor Klawans's first book, Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism was published by Oxford University Press in 2000, and received awards as a best first book for that year from both the American Academy of Religion and the American Academy for Jewish Research.
		Professor Klawans’s second book was published in 2006, also by Oxford University Press: Purity Sacrifice and the Temple: Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient Judaism.
		This book hopes to correct a number of misconceptions about the practice of sacrifice in the ancient world, and the understanding of it in the modern world.
	www.bu.edu /religion/faculty/bios/klawans.html (295 words)

	Judaism
		Rabbinic Judaism emerged to replace the temple cult at Jerusalem, as the Jews carried on their culture and religion through a tradition of scholarship and strict observance.
		Two branches of Judaism emerged in the Middle Ages: the Sephardi, centered in Spain and culturally linked with the Babylonian Jews; and the Ashkenazi, centered in France and Germany and linked with the Jewish culture of Palestine and Rome.
		Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are sometimes referred to as the "Abrahamic religions", because of the role Abraham plays in their holy books and beliefs.
	www.ishwar.com /judaism (1102 words)

	A Study of the Book of Ruth
		The Book of Ruth offers a narrative that strongly contrasts to the general moral and spiritual decline of the times in which it is set.
		Within ancient Judaism, the Book of Ruth is one of five festival scrolls, the Megilloth: Song of Songs (Passover), Ruth (Pentecost), Lamentations (ninth of Ab), Ecclesiastes (Tabernacles), and Esther (Purim).
		The Book of Ruth was used in connection to the Pentecost festival, originally a harvest festival.
	www.christviewmin.org /bible.study/bible.studies.book.ruth.php (9506 words)

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		Among the ancient Hebrews, adherence to the Mosaic Code were based upon the writings of the torah and the Ten Commandments brought down from Mt. Sinai.
		Celebration or ceremony, typically today, as in the ancient past, is, and was, an attempt to preserve and intensify the importance of this experience of the Holy.
		A twelfth century commentary on the Book of Daniel referred to the kinnor had the shape of the Candelabrum, with it's parallel branches arranged in a semicircle.
	www.aug.edu /~cshotwel/2001.Judaism.htm (3154 words)

	Amazon.com: Ancient Judaism: Books: Max Weber,Hans H. Gerth,Don Martindale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The essays on Ancient Judaism appeared originally in the 1917-1919 issues of the Archiv fur Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialforschung.
		Indeed, the closing chapters, on the post-exilic period and the emergence of Second-Temple Judaism, are the weakest of the book.
		This is partly because he insisted on applying his theories of the social role of sects to the religion of the whole population of Persian and Hellenistic Judea, instead of treating it as a national religion fracturing into sects under the pressure of foreign occupation.
	www.amazon.com /Ancient-Judaism-Max-Weber/dp/0029341302 (1278 words)

	Paul and the law: E. E Sander's retrieval of Judaism Christian Century - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Their temple was "rotten to the core." Ancient Judaism was a religion whose rituals were "impressive, inspiring and empty." It was a faith preoccupied with the superficial and lacking in substance.
		The Judaism that emerges in his writing is a living, vibrant religion, not the Judaism of empty ritual and oppressive legalism found in many earlier studies.
		The book opens with a devastating critique of 19th- and early 20th-century Protestant scholarship, with particular attention given to the influence of Ferdinand Weber, Wilhelm Bousset and Rudolf Bultmann.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_12_123/ai_n16546055 (848 words)

	Equinox - Books - Book Details
		This book presents eight new and path-breaking studies which explore the phenomenon of sects in ancient Judaism and the history of sociological theorizing of sectarian movements.
		The book represents a self-conscious foregrounding of sociological issues which the authors apply to their deep knowledge of the history and texts of the so-called sectarian communities.
		Overall the book breaks out of a non reflective and non informed use of sociological typologies to ground conceptualization of sects and their histories in a purposeful sociological context, making controlled use of sociological theory, concepts and substantive findings of other sectarian movements.
	www.equinoxpub.com /books/showbook.asp?bkid=140 (603 words)

	Union for Reform Judaism - BookList
		This book will open your eyes to both sides of the story from the very different personal viewpoints of Jewish and Christian partners and is non-judgmental in the display of the difficulties that may arise.
		This book addresses the role of belief and God in Judaism, as well as the place of Judaism’s core values of study and charity and the place of Israel and community to American Jews.
		This book explores the options and discusses the impact of interfaith families on the developmental stages of the child.
	urj.org /pcw/outreach/booklist/index.cfm (3467 words)

	The Messiah before Jesus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The book places a square challenge before those persuaded by a less apocalyptic/messianc view of the man and his times.
		The book shows that, around the time of Jesus' birth, there came into being a conception of "catastrophic" messianism in which the suffering, humiliation, and death of the messiah were regarded as an integral part of the redemptive process.
		But, on the basis of hymns found at Qumran among the Dead Sea Scrolls, Knohl argues that, one generation before Jesus, a messianic leader arose in the Qumran sect who was regarded by his followers as ushering in an era of redemption and forgiveness.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8832.html (781 words)

	Product detail for Transformations in Ancient Judaism
		Neusner explores the way rabbinic Judaism has responded to social, cultural, and political crises by rethinking historical, received paradigms of piety and practice—and finding in them relevant, useful truth for the current situation.
		This new book is his excellent effort in applying his earlier textual and historical studies to larger questions of the interplay of religon with society and culture.
		He has published more than eight hundred books and innumerable articles, and he is editor of The Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period and the three-volume Encyclopaedia of Judaism.
	www.hendrickson.com /html/product/37054.trade.html (1144 words)

	Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Israel
		A companion sourcebook to the Ancient History Sourcebook, it covers Jewish history from its origins until the state of Israel.
		Timeline for the History of Judaism [At UC Davis]
		Documents on Jews and Judaism in the Greco-Roman Diaspora [At UPenn]
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbook06.html (1089 words)

	Important.ca Judaism, Jewish Books, Recommended Reading
		These twenty-four books are the same books found in the Protestant Old Testament, but the order of the books is different.
		The books of the Torah have generally-used names which are based on the first prominent word in each book.
		The division of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles into parts I and II is also indicated on each page of those books in order to prevent confusion about whether a chapter number is from part I or II, since the chapter numbering for these books follows their partition in the Christian textual tradition.
	www.important.ca /jewish_judaism_books.html (1095 words)

	Happiness in Premodern Judaism - Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being - Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
		To demonstrate the connection of Judaism with the good life, Tirosh-Samuelson shows how Aristotle's reflections on happiness were very much a part of Rabbinic thought and how Jewish philosophers in the Hellenistic period read the Jewish Scriptures in light of the Greek conception of happiness.
		The book is arranged chronologically, showing the correlation between a given notion of happiness and Jewish history and culture at a particular time.
		Demonstrating how the discourse on happiness is a dramatic interplay between Wisdom and Torah, between philosophy and religion, and between reason and faith, Tirosh-Samuelson presents—for the specialist and the non-specialist alike—a fascinating tour of Jewish intellectual history.
	wsupress.wayne.edu /judaica/thought/samuelsonhpj.htm (188 words)

	Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth > Good Books > getting started
		This well written, easy to read book is by one of the preeminent experts in the field.
		A highly technical book aimed at Old Testament scholars, tracing the origins of Israelite myth and theology to earlier Canaanite and West Semitic cultures.
		Like most books about Ugarit, this one is out of print but often available used at Amazon.com.
	www.medmalexperts.com /POCM/good_book_ancient_judaism.html (932 words)

	BRILL
		Astrolábon órganon is the word used in Ptolemaeus Syntaxis 5.1 to describe a form of armillary sphere consisting of both fixed and rotating rings for determining the ecliptic co-ordinates of stars.
		Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies in the Religious Studies Department of the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts.
		He is author or editor of several books on ancient Judaism and also has written broadly on religion and higher education.
	www.brill.nl /m_catalogue_sub6_id351.htm (927 words)

	Mr. Dowling's Judaism Page
		Judaism is the oldest religion of the western world and has influenced Christianity and Islam.
		The Torah is the most holy book of Judaism.
		The most recognized symbol of Judaism is the six pointed Star of David.
	www.mrdowling.com /605-judaism.html (620 words)

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