Bernard Lewis In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through...

Daniel C Snell In this sweeping overview of life in the ancient Near East, Daniel Snell surveys the history of the region from the invention of writing five thousand years...

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin What do the great Jewish writings of the last 3,500 years tell us about these and all other vital questions about our lives? Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has...

Louis H Feldman Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true,...

Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (the Rav) was the towering rabbinic thinker of the twentieth century. In addition to his wellspring of Torah knowledge, the Rav taught,...

Peter Partner Bound by religious vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, the Knights Templar were a Military Crusading Order engaged in religious war in the Holy Land. At the end...

Roman A Foxbrunner Habad: The Hasidism of R. Shneur Zalman of Lyady is a scholarly examination of the philosophical and spiritual foundations of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism. Roman A. Foxbrunner provides an...

Betty Rojtman Using the tools of contemporary semiotic theory to analyze classical rabbinic hermeneutics and medieval mystical exegesis, Betty Rojtman unveils a striking modernity in these early forms of textual...

Marco Polo Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the...

Edmund M Kern In this original interpretation of the Harry Potter sensation, Edmund M. Kern argues that the attraction of these stories to children comes not only from the fantastical...

Brian P Copenhaver (Editor) The Hermetica are a body of mystical texts written in late antiquity, but believed during the Renaissance (when they became well known) to be much older. Their...

Judah Nadich Explore the formative period of Jewish thought through Judah Nadich's scholarly examination of rabbinic legends. This work traces the teachings and narratives of the first generation of sages...