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Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds

Posted in General Judaism, History of Judaism, Judaism, Spirituality, tagged , , , , , , on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds . This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man’s life against the background of the [...]

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Jews in Germany: From Roman Times to the Weimar Republic

Posted in History of Judaism, Judaism, tagged , , , on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Jews in Germany: From Roman Times to the Weimar Republic. This book tells a story that is often (and tragically) forgotten about: the history of German Jewry prior to the rise of the Nazis. In telling the story, Mr. Gidal makes great use of art as well as of text. Though he doesn’t go into [...]

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The History of God: The 4,000 Year Quest [AUDIOBOOK] (Audio CD)

Posted in Audiobooks, CD, Christianity, Comparative Religion, General Christianity, General Islam, General Judaism, History of Christianity, History of Islam, History of Judaism, Islam, Judaism, Religious Studies, tagged , , , , , , on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This searching, profound comparative history of the three major monotheistic faiths fearlessly illuminates the sociopolitical ground in which religious ideas take root, blossom and mutate. Armstrong, a British broadcaster, commentator on religious affairs and former Roman Catholic nun, argues that Judaism, Christianity and Islam each developed the idea of a personal God, which has helped [...]

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Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and Cooperation

Posted in Christianity, Comparative Religion, History of Christianity, History of Islam, History of Judaism, Islam, Judaism, Religious Studies, tagged , , , , , , on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Conventional wisdom says that Christians, Jews and Muslims cannot get along and have never gotten along; the Crusades, the Inquisition and September 11 have all fueled the flames of constant religious intolerance. In a pedantic and frustrating study, journalist Karabell (The Last Campaign) challenges this view by pointing to numerous but little-known periods of [...]

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Abraham’s Curse: The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Posted in Christianity, Comparative Religion, History of Christianity, History of Islam, History of Judaism, Islam, Judaism, Religious Studies, tagged , , , on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

In this thought-provoking study, Bard College professor Chilton (Rabbi Jesus) asks how the Abrahamic faiths have understood Genesis 22, the story of the binding of Isaac. All three religions include a strand of interpretation that reads the binding of Isaac as valorizing the sacrifice of human life. Some rabbinic texts, for example, suggest [...]

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