Overview :Jewish Culture and Creativity honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof. Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects t... Read More
Overview :This analysis of the phenomenon of textual analysis in ancient Israel was first published in hardback in 1985 and is updated with new materi... Read More
Overview :The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is in the symbolic forms... Read More
Overview :Contemporary theology, and Jewish theology in particular, Michael Fishbane asserts, now lies fallow, beset by strong critiques from within a... Read More
Overview :This is a comprehensive study of myth in the Hebrew Bible and myth and mythmaking in classical rabbinic literature (Midrash and Talmud) and ... Read More
Overview :A powerful exploration of how literature transforms our earliest, preverbal experiences. Primacies begins with the assertion that our earlie... Read More
Overview :Song of Songs is a wondrous collection of love lyrics nestled in the heart of the Hebrew Bible--songs of passion and praise between a young ... Read More
Overview :This innovative and original book examines the broad range of Jewish interpretation from antiquity through the medieval and renaissance peri... Read More
Overview :The lines of Michael Fishbane's book trace the spiritual face of Judaism in one of its many appearances. Fishbane explores the quest for spi... Read More
Overview :A National Jewish Book Award FinalistThe haftarot are an ancient part of Hebrew liturgy. These supplemental readings are excerpted from the ... Read More
Overview :Exegesis--interpretation and explanation of sacred texts--is the quintessence of rabbinic thought. Through such means and methods, the writt... Read More
Overview :The geographic, spiritual, and intellectual journeys of Nahum N. Glatzer (1903-1990)--prolific scholar, Brandeis University professor, and e... Read More
Overview :The bible remains one of the major literary achievements of human history, comprising over 60 documents, with as many contributors, and comp... Read More
Overview :Offered in celebration of Talmon's half-century of life and study in Israel, the essays in this Festschrift reflect Talmon's lifelong intere... Read More
Overview :In this almost painfully beautiful book... Fishbane... explores the question of the kind of canon, privileged status, or Logos, the Torah ac... Read More