Martin Sicker This book provides unique insights into the profound religious and cultural issues underlying the increasingly ideological divisions within Israeli society over the questions of territorial concessions and the...

Walter Burkert The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the...

Jon D Levenson This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-provoking return to...

Edited by Harold B Segel A vibrant Jewish community flourished in Poland from late in the tenth century until it was virtually annihilated in World War II. In this remarkable...

Johann Reuchlin Reuchlin’s keen interest in Jewish mysticism resulted in the original publication of this work in 1517. The first part of this dialogue reflects on messianism, the second part...

John J Collins (Editor) This is a psychological and historical exploration of belief in a spirit world, imperceptible to the senses, as a pervasive and deeply-rooted characteristic of religion. Belief in...

Michael Walzer Examines the political ramifications of Exodus and interprets the biblical story in terms of a framework for modern political radicalism January 1, 1985 by Basic Books, Inc.

Mark R Cohen, translator, editor Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community--a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary...

David I Kertzer Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award FinalistThe extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in...

Celia Green and Charles McCreery Lucid dreams are dreams in which a person becomes aware that they are dreaming. They are different from ordinary dreams, not just because of the...

J Allan Hobson A Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and neuroscientist shows how dream science draws on psychology and neurobiology to provide new insight into the nature of the human mind....

Daniel Beresniak There are over ten million freemasons in the world. The supposed power of their occult network is often feared, and yet freemasonry is not a closed doctrine. Richly...