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Betraying Spinoza : the renegade Jew who gave us modernity / by Goldstein, Rebecca,1950-(CARDINAL)729866;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284).
Subjects: Biographies.; Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.; Jewish heretics; Jewish philosophers;
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All who go do not return : a memoir / by Deen, Shulem,author.(CARDINAL)619340;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308)."Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world--only that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgression--turning on the radio--is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Deen, Shulem.; Skvira Hasidim; Jewish heretics;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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As a driven leaf / by Steinberg, Milton,1903-1950.(CARDINAL)744181; Potok, Chaim.(CARDINAL)125410;
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Religious fiction.; Elisha ben Avuyah, approximately 70-approximately 135; Jewish heretics; Jews;
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Sacred trash : the lost and found world of the Cairo Geniza / by Hoffman, Adina.(CARDINAL)705151; Cole, Peter,1957-(CARDINAL)751043; Schechter, S.(Solomon),1847-1915.(CARDINAL)749322;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-284).Hidden wisdom -- Serpents and secrets -- All Sirach now -- Into Egypt -- Sorting -- Palimpsests -- That nothing be lost -- A gallery of heretics -- Pieces of the Spanish puzzle -- A Mediterranean society.Traces the efforts of two women scholars who recovered what has become the most vital cache of Hebrew manuscripts ever discovered, in an account that explains what the findings reveal about Mediterranean Judaism.
Subjects: Cairo Genizah.; Jews; Judaism;
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Who Made Early Christianity?: The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul. by Gager, John G.(CARDINAL)729787;
In this historical and theological study, John G. Gager undermines the myth of the Apostle Paul's rejection of Judaism, conversion to Christianity, and founding of Christian anti-Judaism. He finds that the rise of Christianity occurred well after Paul's death and attributes the distortion of the Apostle's views to early and later Christians. Though Christian clerical elites ascribed a rejection-replacement theology to Paul's legend, Gager shows that the Apostle was considered a loyal Jew by many of his Jesus-believing contemporaries and that later Jewish and Muslim thinkers held the same view. He holds that one of the earliest misinterpretations of Paul was to name him the founder of Christianity, and in recent times numerous Jewish and Christian readers of Paul have moved beyond this understanding. Gager also finds that Judaism did not fade away after Paul's death but continued to appeal to both Christians and pagans for centuries. Jewish synagogues remained important religious and social institutions throughout the Mediterranean world. Making use of all possible literary and archaeological sources, including Muslim texts, Gager helps recover the long pre-history of a Jewish Paul, obscured by recent, negative portrayals of the Apostle, and recognizes the enduring bond between Jews and Christians that has influenced all aspects of Christianity.
Subjects: Paul, the Apostle, Saint; Identification (Religion); Christianity and other religions;
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Our father Abraham : Jewish roots of the Christian faith / by Wilson, Marvin R.,1935-Author(DLC)n 84028243 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-408) and indexes.Part 1: A new people: Abraham's spiritual children. The root and branches -- Gentiles, Jews, and Jewish heritage -- Part 2: Church and synagogue in the light of history. The earliest church and Judaism -- Theological conflict and persecution -- "Heretics" and the synagoge -- The Jewish revolts and the parting of the way -- A history of contempt: anti-Semitism and the church -- Part 3: Understanding Hebrew thought. The Old Testament: Hebraic foundation of the church -- The contour of Hebrew thought -- Where the church went wrong -- Part 4: Jewish heritage and the church: selected studies. Marriage and the family through Hebrew eyes -- Passover and Last Supper -- Jews, Christians, and the land -- A life of learning: the heart of Jewish heritage -- Part 5: Toward restoring Jewish roots. If not now...when? Part 6: In retrospect: reflections on Christian-Jewish relations from Auschwitz to the present. The Holocaust and Christian-Jewish relations -- My story: the odyssey and reflections of an evangelical in interfaith dialogue.Although the roots of Christianity run deep into Hebrew soil, many Christians remain regrettably uninformed about the rich Jewish heritage of the church. Our Father Abraham delineates the vital link between Judaism and Christianity, exemplified by the common ancestry of the two faiths traceable back to Abraham. Marvin Wilson calls Christians to reexamine their Semitic heritage to regain a more authentically biblical understanding of what they believe and practice. Wilson, a trusted voice among both Jews and Christians, speaks to both past and present, first developing a historical perspective on the Jewish origins of the church and then discussing how the church can become more attuned to the Hebraic mindset of Scripture. Drawing from his own extensive experience, he also offers valuable practical guidance for salutary interaction between Christians and Jews. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter make this book especially suitable for use in groups--Christian, Jewish, or interfaith--as readers strive to make sense of their own faith in connection with the other. The second edition of Our Father Abraham features a new preface, an expanded bibliography of recent relevant works, and two new chapters: one that discusses Jewish-Christian relations after the Holocaust and another that reflects on Wilson's own fifty-plus-year career as an evangelical Christian deeply committed to interfaith dialogue. As Christians and Jews feel a growing need for mutual support in an increasingly secular Western world, Wilson's widely acclaimed book will offer encouragement and wise guidance toward this worthy end.
Subjects: Judaism; Christianity and other religions; Christianity;
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The origin of Satan / by Pagels, Elaine H.,1943-(CARDINAL)142000;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-203) and index.The gospel of Mark and the Jewish war -- The social history of Satan : from the Hebrew Bible to the gospels -- Matthew's campaign against the Pharisees : deploying the devil -- Luke and John claim Israel's legacy : the split widens -- Satan's earthly kingdom : Christians against pagans -- The enemy within : demonizing the heretics."With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan's story into an audacious exploration of Christianity's shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike." --
Subjects: Bible.; Christianity and antisemitism.; Devil;
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Heretics / by Padura, Leonardo,author.(CARDINAL)777977; Kushner, Anna,translator.(CARDINAL)352541;
"A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope will save them: a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the harbor with the family, bound for the horrors of Europe. The Kaminskys, along with their priceless heirloom, disappear. Nearly seven decades later, the Rembrandt reappears in an auction house in London, prompting Daniel's son to travel to Cuba to track down the story of his family's lost masterpiece. He hires the down-on-his-luck private detective Mario Conde, and together they navigate a web of deception and violence in the morally complex city of Havana. In Heretics, Leonardo Padura takes us from the tenements and beaches of Cuba to Rembrandt's gloomy studio in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, telling the story of people forced to choose between the tenets of their faith and the realities of the world, between their personal desires and the demands of their times. A grand detective story and a moving historical drama, Padura's novel is as compelling, mysterious, and enduring as the painting at its center. "--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Conde, Mario; Jewish refugees; Art thefts; Private investigators;
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Jewish pirates of the Caribbean : how a generation of swashbuckling Jews carved out an empire in the New World in their quest for treasure, religious freedom--and revenge / by Kritzler, Edward,1941-2010.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-315) and index.Columbus and Jamaica's chosen people -- Adventuring in the New World -- The king's essential heretics -- Samuel Palache, the pirate rabbi -- Amsterdam, the new Jerusalem -- Zion warriors in the New World -- Exodus to heretic island -- Cromwell's secret agents -- The golden dream of Charles II -- Buccaneer island -- Epilogue: Searching for the lost mine of Columbus.
Subjects: Buccaneers; Crypto-Jews; Jewish pirates; Jews;
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The terror of history [sound recording] : mystics, heretics, and witches in the western tradition / by Ruiz, Teofilo F.,1943-; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Lecturer: Teofilo F. Ruiz.A study of mysticism, heresy, apocalyptic movements, and the witch craze in Europe between 1000 and 1700.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Lectures.; Civilization, Medieval.; Mysticism;
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