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Cover of Judaism in Biological Perspective: Biblical Lore and Judaic Practices
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Judaism in Bio­log­i­cal Per­spec­tive: Bib­li­cal Lore and Juda­ic Practices
Rick Goldberg, ed.
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Jews and Mag­ic in Medici Flo­rence: The Secret World of Benedet­to Blanis
Edward Goldberg
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A Great Voice That Did Not Cease: The Growth of the Rab­binic Canon and its Interpretation
Michael Chernick
Cover of Paul Was Not a Christian: The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apostle
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Paul Was Not a Chris­t­ian: The Orig­i­nal Mes­sage of a Mis­un­der­stood Apostle
Pamela Eisenbaum
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Mai­monides: The Excep­tion­al Mind
Israel Drazin
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Mai­monidean Stud­ies: Vol­ume 5
Arthur Hyman, ed.
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Levi­rate Mar­riage and the Fam­i­ly in Ancient Judaism
Dvora E. Weisberg
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Jew­ish Pub­lic Cul­ture in the Late Russ­ian Empire
Jeffrey Veidlinger
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Eman­ci­pa­tion Through Mus­cles: Jews and Sports in Europe
Michael Brenner; Gideon Reuveni, eds.
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Plumes: Ostrich Feath­ers, Jews, and a Lost World of Glob­al Commerce
Sarah Abre­vaya Stein
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Per­form­ing Israel’s Faith: Nar­ra­tive and Law in Rab­binic Theology
Jacob Neusner
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David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the West­ern Tradition
Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman
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Stud­ies in Bible and Fem­i­nist Criticism
Tikva Frymer-Kensky
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Heav­en­ly Torah as Refract­ed Through the Generations
Abraham Joshua Heschel; Gordon Tucker and Leonard Levin, eds. and trans.
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The Torah: A Wom­en’s Commentary
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Andrea L Weiss, eds.
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Author­i­ty, Pow­er, and Lead­er­ship in the Jew­ish Polity
Daniel J. Elazar
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