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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marc saperstein”
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  • Exile and the Jews

    Literature, History, and Identity

    Edited by Nancy E. Berg, Rabbi Marc Saperstein ...
    Series series JPS Anthologies of Jewish Thought
    This first comprehensive anthology examining Jewish responses to exile from the biblical period to our modern day gathers texts from all genres of Jewish literary creativity to explore how the realities and interpretations of exile have shaped Judaism, Jewish politics, and individual Jewish identity for millennia. Ordered along multiple arcs—from universal to particular, collective to individual, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Tois Pasin ho Kairos

    Judaism and Orthodox Christianity Facing the Future

    by Elena Narinskaya, Sybil Sheridan, Michael G. Azar, Krastu Banev, Joanna Burton, Mary B. Cunningham, Misza Czerniak, Miri Freud-Kandel, Ian Graham0, Michael Harris1, Petra Heldt2, René Pfertzel3, David Rosen4, Sylvia Rothschild5, Marc Saperstein6, Elizabeth Theokritoff7, Tanhum Yoreh8 ...
    This book addresses Judaism and Orthodox Christianity, and particularly their points of similarity and difference, congruence and conflict. The city of Jerusalem stands at the heart of both these age-old faiths, but today it is a divided city in which Jews and Orthodox Christians seem to find themselves on opposite sides of history. Must this story be one of continuing conflict, or is there scope ... Read more

    $105.49 CAD

  • Witness from the Pulpit

    Topical Sermons, 1933-1980

    by Harold I. Saperstein, Marc Saperstein ...
    Harold I. Saperstein served as rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Lynbrook, N.Y., from 1933 until his retirement in 1980. The specific contours of his career reflect a sustained effort to use the pulpit of this suburban temple to communicate a Jewish perspective based on personal encounters with great issues of the day-including the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust, the civil rights era, the McCarthy era ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Devil and the Jews

    The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism

    by Joshua Trachtenberg ...
    A JPS bestseller, this is the definitive work of scholarship on the medieval conception of the Jew as devil—literally and figuratively. Through documents, analysis, and illustrations, the book exposes the full spectrum of the Jew’s demonization as devil, sorcerer, and ritual murderer. The author reveals how these myths, many with origins traced to Christian Europe in the late Middle Ages, still ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

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    by Martin Luther ...
    The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, commonly known as The Ninety-Five Theses, were written by Martin Luther in 1517 and are widely regarded as the primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. Luther used these theses to display his displeasure with some of the Church's clergy's abuses, most notably the sale of indulgences; this ultimately gave birth to Lutheranism. ... Read more

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  • Fatal Discord

    Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

    by Michael Massing ...
    The "riveting" story of Erasmus, Martin Luther, and the rivalry between the reformer and the dissident: "An impressive, powerful intellectual history." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)At a time when Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael were revolutionizing Western art and culture, Erasmus of Rotterdam was helping to transform Europe's intellectual and religious life, developing a new design for ... Read more

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  • The Atheist's Bible

    The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

    by Georges Minois ...
    Translated by Lys Ann Weiss ...
    This intellectual history of a rumored book of heresy reveals a persistent undercurrent of atheism from the Middle Ages into the 18th century.In 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book— De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three ... Read more

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  • A Most Dangerous Book

    Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

    by Christopher B. B. Krebs ...
    The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height ... Read more

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  • Small Catechism (Mobi Classics)

    by Martin Luther,Robert E. Smith (Translator) ...
    Luther's Small Catechism was written by Martin Luther and published in 1529 for the training of children. Luther's Small Catechism reviews The Ten Commandments, The Apostles' Creed, The Lord's Prayer, Holy Baptism, The Office of the Keys & Confession, and The Sacrament of the Altar. It is included in the Lutheran Book of Concord as an authoritative statement of what Lutherans believe.The Small ... Read more

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  • The Pursuit Of The Millennium

    Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

    by Norman Cohn ...
    The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth, free of suffering and sin - a Kingdom of the Saints. Generation after generation was intermittently seized by a tense expectation of some sudden, miraculous event in which the world would be utterly ... Read more

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  • Peasant Fires

    The Drummer of Niklashausen

    by Richard Wunderli ...
    " . . . lively and intellectually stimulating . . . " —Speculum"Wunderli . . . has lucidly reconstructed a controversial conflict in 15th-century south-central Germany. . . . this engaging narrative takes off from Hans Behem—the peasant who claimed to see the Virgin and gained followers until crushed by the established church—to explore larger forces at work in Germany on the eve of the ... Read more

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  • Last Testament

    In His Own Words

    by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald ...
    'Gripping ... An exquisite conversation between two people who know each other, like each other, and have mutual respect for one another' - Catholic TimesSince resigning from the papacy in 2013, the first Pope in over 700 years to do so, Pope Benedict has lived quietly in a convent in the Vatican gardens in Rome. He has devoted himself to a life of prayer and study and has vowed to remain silent, ... Read more

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