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    Modern Jewish Thought

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    Lev­inas’s Jew­ish Thought: Between Jerusalem and Athens
    Ephraim Meir
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    Yirat Shamay­im: The Awe, Rev­er­ence and Fear of God
    Marc D. Stern, ed.
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    The Part­ing of the Sea: How Vol­ca­noes, Earth­quakes, and Plagues Shaped the Sto­ry of Exodus
    Barbara J. Sivertsen
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    In the Shad­ow of a Burn­ing Bush: Poems on Exodus
    Yakov Azriel
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    A Mod­ern Ortho­dox Life: Ser­mons and Columns
    Emanuel Rackman
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    A Code of Jew­ish Ethics: Vol­ume 2 — Love Your Neigh­bor As Yourself
    Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
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    How God Changes Your Brain
    Andrew Newberg; Mark Robert Waldman
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    Nehama Lei­bowitz: Teacher and Bible Scholar
    Yael Unterman
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    What God Can Do For You Now: For Seek­ers Who Want to Believe
    Robert N. Levine
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    Mekhil­ta De-Rab­bi Shi­mon Bar Yohai
    W. David Nelson, trans.
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    The Tal­mud: What It Is and What It Says
    Jacob Neusner
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    Let There Be Light
    Howard A. Smith
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    Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: Power
    Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman, ed.
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    The God­file: 10 Approach­es to Per­son­al­iz­ing Prayer
    Aryeh Ben David
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    An Intro­duc­tion to Juda­ic Thought and Rab­binic Literature
    Martin Sicker
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    How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scrip­ture, Then and Now
    James L. Kugel
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