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Author
Louis Jacobs
ISBN #
0197100392
Author
Louis Jacobs
ISBN #
0521263700
Louis Jacobs (17 July 1920 1 July 2006,) was the founder of Masorti Judaism (also known as Conservative Judaism) in the United Kingdom, and a leading...
ISBN #
1
This book deals with the life and thought of an original but neglected religious thinker who, perhaps more than any other in the history of Jewish thought, grappled with the problems inherent in the idea of God's unity. Rabbi Aaron Horowitz is generally acknowledged to be the most outstanding, syste...
Author
Louis Jacobs
Binding
Paperback
Pages
168
Publisher
Vallentine Mitchell
ISBN #
0853035911
EAN Code
9780853035916
ISBN #
14
A unique and inspiring collection of accounts by people who have encountered God, from Biblical times to the present.Foreword by Karen ArmstrongThe Schocken Book of Jewish Mystical Testimonies brings together the few accounts we have by Jewish mystics of their encounters with the divine. The sources...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
329
Publisher
Schocken
ISBN #
0805241434
EAN Code
9780805241433
ISBN #
13
The central thesis of A Tree of Life, now revised and expanded, is that social, economic, theological and even political factors have always played a part in framing Jewish law. Through discussion of historical and contemporary halakhic responses to a wide range of issues, Louis Jacobs shows how the...
Author
Louis Jacobs
Binding
Paperback
Pages
344
Publisher
Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization
ISBN #
187477448X
EAN Code
9781874774488
ISBN #
12
This book examines the basic beliefs of Judaism in light of modern thought. Its shape is traditional but not fundamentalist. This book, the main cause of the 'Jacobs Affair' in which the author's appointment to an Orthodox Rabbinic position was vetoed, suggests that the doctrine Torah Min Ha-Shamayy...
Author
Louis Jacobs
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
157
Publisher
Vallentine Mitchell
ISBN #
0853035385
EAN Code
9780853035381
ISBN #
11
More than forty years have passed since Louis Jacobs first put forward the argument that traditionally observant Jews have no reason to take issue with the findings of the historical critics in their investigations of the Bible. In his numerous works on Jewish theology, Jacobs has argued that the tr...
Author
Louis Jacobs
Binding
Paperback
Pages
278
Publisher
Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization
ISBN #
1904113117
EAN Code
9781904113119
ISBN #
7
How do Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism differ? Is caviar kosher? Who was Maimonides? What is current Jewish thought on Jesus, sex, abortion, feminism, and capital punishment? Spanning from biblical times to the present, The Jewish Religion offers a goldmine of information on Jewish belief...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
648
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0198264631
EAN Code
9780198264637
ISBN #
4
The Book Of Jewish Practice
Author
Louis Jacobs
Binding
Paperback
Pages
150
Publisher
Behrman House
ISBN #
0874414601
EAN Code
9780874414608
ISBN #
3
The Book of Jewish Belief
Author
Louis Jacobs
Binding
Paperback
Pages
250
Publisher
Behrman House
ISBN #
0874413796
EAN Code
9780874413793
ISBN #
1