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  • The Terror of Evil
    Avi Sagi / Dov Schwartz / Batya Stein
    This book explores how modern religious thought and religious Zionism have addressed the profound question of evil, with a particular focus on the Holocaust. It delves into the theological and philosophical challenges posed by absolute, undeniable, and inexplicable primal evil. The awareness of this primal evil serves as the foundation connecting the chapters, which trace the p...
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    116,65 €

  • Light Through the Crack
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    An epidemic such as COVID-19 challenges life’s very order and meaning, interferes in our relations with others, and breaks apart our routine. It raises many questions in the realms of ethics, politics, theology, psychology, and beyond. Perhaps more than anything else, it prompts us to ponder: what does this encounter with widespread anguish and distress imply about the human se...
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    144,85 €

  • Light Through the Crack
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    An epidemic such as COVID-19 challenges life’s very order and meaning, interferes in our relations with others, and breaks apart our routine. It raises many questions in the realms of ethics, politics, theology, psychology, and beyond. Perhaps more than anything else, it prompts us to ponder: what does this encounter with widespread anguish and distress imply about the human se...
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    48,31 €

  • Morality and Religion
    Avi Sagi
    The relationship between morality and religion has long been controversial, familiar in its formulation as Euthyphro’s dilemma: Is an act right because God commanded it or did God command it because it is right. In Morality and Religion: The Jewish Story, renowned scholar Avi Sagi marshals the breadth of philosophical and hermeneutical tools to examine this relationship in Juda...
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    170,49 €

  • Morality and Religion
    Avi Sagi
    The relationship between morality and religion has long been controversial, familiar in its formulation as Euthyphro’s dilemma: Is an act right because God commanded it or did God command it because it is right. In Morality and Religion: The Jewish Story, renowned scholar Avi Sagi marshals the breadth of philosophical and hermeneutical tools to examine this relationship in Juda...
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    168,79 €

  • Living With the Other
    Avi Sagi
    The book grapples with one of the most difficult questions confronting the contemporary world: the problem of the other, which includes ethical, political, and metaphysical aspects. A widespread approach in the history of the discourse on the other, systematically formulated by Emmanuel Levinas and his followers, has invested this term with an almost mythical quality-the other ...
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    120,61 €

  • Religious Zionism and the Six Day War
    Avi Sagi / Dov Schwartz
    This book examines the revolutionary transformation of religious Zionism within Israeli politics and society since the Six Day War. ...
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    268,55 €

  • Reflections on Identity
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    The book deals with identity in general and with Jewish identity in particular. The book rejects rigid and one-sided notions of Jewish identity and offers a historical-cultural analysis of the identity discourse. ...
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    88,72 €

  • Prayer After the Death of God
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    The book offers a new theory of prayer, based on an analysis of the actual experience of praying individuals rather than on the relationship with God. The thesis is that prayer is a primary phenomenon conveying that humans are praying beings. ...
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    100,31 €

  • Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse
    Avi Sagi / Yakir Englander / Batya Stein
    Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discourse on the body and sexuality within religious-Zionism as it has developed in recent decades, including in cyberspace, and considers such issues as homosexuality, lesbianism, mastu...
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    99,88 €

  • Faith
    Avi Sagi / Dov Schwartz
    Faith: Jewish Perspectives explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith. Is believing a voluntary action, or do believers find themselves within the experience of faith against their will? Can faith be understood through other means (psychological, epistemic, and so forth), or is it only comprehensible from the inside, ...
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    53,71 €

  • Faith
    Avi Sagi / Dov Schwartz
    Faith: Jewish Perspectives explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith. Is believing a voluntary action, or do believers find themselves within the experience of faith against their will? Can faith be understood through other means (psychological, epistemic, and so forth), or is it only comprehensible from the inside, ...
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    98,46 €

  • To Be a Jew
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    To Be a Jew deals with the question of the meaning and rationale that the writer Joseph Chayim Brenner attributes to Jewish existence. Many of Brenner’s readers assumed that Brenner completely negated Jewish existence and sought to form a new way of life completely disconnected from the traditional Jewish existence. In contrast to this perception, Avi Sagi proves that not only ...
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    245,82 €

  • To Be a Jew
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    To Be a Jew deals with the question of the meaning and rationale that the writer Joseph Chayim Brenner attributes to Jewish existence. Many of Brenner’s readers assumed that Brenner completely negated Jewish existence and sought to form a new way of life completely disconnected from the traditional Jewish existence.In contrast to this perception, Avi Sagi proves that not only d...
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    66,82 €

  • Jewish Religion After Theology
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    Jewish Religion after Theology ponders one of the most intriguing shifts in modern Jewish thought: from a metaphysical and theological standpoint toward a new manner of philosophizing based primarily on practice. Different chapters study this great shift and its various manifestations. The central figure of this new examination is Isaiah Leibowitz, whose thoughts encapsulate mo...
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    39,16 €

  • Jewish Religion After Theology
    Abraham Sagi / Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    Jewish Religion after Theology ponders one of the most intriguing shifts in modern Jewish thought: from a metaphysical and theological standpoint toward a new manner of philosophizing based primarily on practice. Different chapters study this great shift and its various manifestations. The central figure of this new examination is Isaiah Leibowitz, whose thoughts encapsulate mo...
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    63,09 €

  • The Open Cannon
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    In this groundbreaking study Avi Sagi outlines a broad spectrum of answers to important questions presented in Jewish literature, covering theological issues bearing on the meaning of the Torah and of revelation, as well as hermeneutical questions regarding understanding of the halakhic text. This is the first volume to attempt to provide a comprehensive map of the available vi...
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    68,08 €

  • The Open Canon
    Avi Sagi
    In this groundbreaking study Avi Sagi outlines a broad spectrum of answers to important questions presented in Jewish literature, covering theological issues bearing on the meaning of the Torah and of revelation, as well as hermeneutical questions regarding understanding of the halakhic text.  This is the first volume to attempt to provide a comprehensive map of the available ...
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    258,84 €

  • Transforming Identity
    Avi Sagi / Zvi Zohar
    Of all Judaic rituals, that of giyyur is arguably the most radical: it turns a Gentile into a Jew once and for all and irrevocably. The very possibility of such a transformation is anomalous, according to Jewish tradition, which regards Jewishness as an ascriptive status entered through birth to a Jewish mother.What is the internal logic of the ritual of giyyur, that seems to ...
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    122,58 €