A number of years ago the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Publication Society published two books for Jews and Muslims. One was by Khalid Durán, Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews. I haven’t read the book, but it seems that some Muslims weren’t very happy about it.
A companion book [...]
On the Main Line has posted some very interesting sources about the way in which some Jewish travelers ate kosher food on their journeys. I would add the following from this exhibit (see under “Jews and the Liquor Trade”),
By the end of the eighteenth century about 80 percent of rural Jews in Poland-Lithuania were [...]
A new book from Brill with an October 2009 publication date, The New Testament and Rabbinic Literature,
Edited by Reimund Bieringer, Florentino García Martínez, Didier Pollefeyt & Peter J. Tomson.
The present book brings together the contributions of the foremost specialists on the relationship of the New Testament and Rabbinic Literature. It contains the proceedings of a [...]
It seems that this summer has been rich with many important archaeological finds in Israel and the latest one is a Roman mansion found in the City of David. Dr. Doron Ben-Ami, the excavation’s director said that “[the] building most likely met its end during a massive earthquake that shook Jerusalem in 363 [...]
Johannes Buxtorf (more here) (1564-1629) was a German Hebraist who authored Synagoga Judaica, a rich description of Jewish life and practice in early seventeenth century Germany. Among his other works, Buxtorf also authored books on Biblical and Rabbinic Aramaic and on Hebrew Grammar. Alan D. Corré has translated Synagoga Judaica (Juden-Schül) and [...]
This Shabbat our synagogue hosted a shabbaton from Yeshivat Hadar. Yeshivat Hadar is one of the more exciting things that is happening in the world of Torah study these days. They have an extensive number of source sheets and podcasts of classes posted online. They just received a large matching grant, which [...]
One of the great features of Israeli radio is האוניברסיטה המשודרת, The Broadcast University, which broadcasts lectures on numerous topics on Galei Tzahal, Israel Army Radio. Usually these lectures are published as books which serve as very good introductions. They have just finished a series by Dr. Thamar E. Gindin on Early Persian [...]
Raymond Ibrahim has a article in the latest issue of the Middle East Quarterly, “Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?”. Ibrahim’s claim is that there is a fundamental difference between violence in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions. (hat tip) He wrote he following regarding violence in the Bible,
Old Testament violence [...]
From Jaroslav Pelikan (also see this post),
‘‘To the Christian disciples of the first century the conception of Jesus as a rabbi was self-evident,
to the Christian disciples of the second century it was embarrassing, to the Christian
disciples of the third century and beyond it was obscure.’’
Jesus through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture [...]
I am all for people not willing to compromise on tenets of their faith and that includes the belief by many Christians that all people, including Jews, should one day accept Jesus Christ as their savior. If some Jew expresses interest in becoming Christian, go ahead and try and convert them. It is painful [...]
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