Peter Richardson In Peter Richardson''s acclaimed study, Herod is seen as a talented, vigorous, lusty, skilful, charismatic, attractive, decisive and influential ruler; however, his personal life was a disaster.' January...

Melila Hellner-Eshed In the Zohar , the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse "A river flows from Eden to water the garden" (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the...

Peter Schafer The Origins of Jewish Mysticism offers the first in-depth look at the history of Jewish mysticism from the book of Ezekiel to the Merkavah mysticism of late antiquity....

Randall Heskett and Joel Butler Winner of the Gourmand Wine Books prize for 'Best Drinks Writing Book' in the UKA fascinating journey through ancient wine country that reveals the drinking...

Gershom Scholem A groundbreaking text on alchemy by the leading scholar of Jewish mysticism is presented here for the first time in English translation. Scholem looks critically at the connections...

Abraham Rami Dayan “Wisdom from Zion” is a unique book, a vast collection of over 1,600 wisdom proverbs with their exact sources and the original quote where they first appeared....

Moshe Idel Primeval Evil analyzes the various versions of a theory maintaining the Kabbalistic visions as to the precedence of evil before good, within the divine realm and in the...

David Hazony  ACROSS THE WESTERN WORLD, the Ten Commandments have become a source of inspiration and controversy, whether in court rulings, in film and literature, or as a religious icon...

Geraldine Pinch From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the...

Seth L Sanders The Invention of Hebrew is the first book to approach the Bible in light of recent epigraphic discoveries on the extreme antiquity of the alphabet and its...

Akiva Bruck Emerging from the eighteenth-century remote villages of the Ukraine and Poland, the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov and his students have recently experienced an unprecedented revival within...

Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk The Tzetel Katan of Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk is one of the greatest legacies left to us by a Chasidic Master. It is a handbook for...