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...

Judah Nadich Rabbi Akiba and His Contemporaries relates the stories told by and about the great rabbis and scholars of the talmudic period, and includes their ethical and moral teachings,...

Moshe Greenberg The Psalms are the best known and most widely used prayer texts of the Bible. But the prayers of the Israelite took another the prose prayers that we...

Theophile James Meek First published January 1, 1936

Marcel Detienne Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of...

Jasper Ridley For many centuries, since their founding as a guild comprising the master builders of the great castles and cathedrals of the Middle Ages, the freemasons have enjoyed a...

Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus This book is about what makes food Jewish, or better, who and how one makes food Jewish. Making food Jewish is to negotiate between the local, regional, and...

Geza Vermes From the world's leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, Geza Vermes' The Story of the The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an ideal...