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...

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...

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...

Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel This book considers how religious beliefs & cultic rituals were given expression in ancient Greece. The chapters cover ritual, then myth, rooting the...

EW Heaton Ancient Israel emerged as a centralized nation state. The background and significance of this transformation. The role played by Egypt, plus the art and styles that flourished during...

Seth M Siegel New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller!As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in...