Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible
Edward Cooke, Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History
Melila Helner-Eshed, Seekers of the Face: Secrets of the Idra Rabba (The Great Assembly) of the Zohar
Magda Teter: Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism
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Daniel Boyarin, The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto
Lavi Tidhar, Central Station
Sa’d ibn Mansur ibn Kammuna, Subtle Insights Concerning Knowlege and Practice
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Idolatry: A Contemporary Jewish Conversation
Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Same God, Other god: Judaism, Hinduism, and the Problem of Idolatry
Mika Ahuvia, On My Right Micahel, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture
Rafael Rachel Neis, When A Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species
David Shyovitz, A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz
Carol Meyers, Households and Holiness: The Religious Culture of Israelite Women
Gilbert Simondon, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
Gilbert Simondon, Imagination and Invention
Michel Serres, The Incandescent
Magda Teter, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth
Elie Kedourie, Nationalism
Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Medidations
Talal Asad, On Suicide Bombing
William Cavanaugh, The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict
Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life
Clémence Boulouque, Another Modernity: Elia Benamozegh’s Jewish Universalism
2022
Josep Sassoon, The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
Alexander Kaye, The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel
Thomas of Monmouth, The Life and Passion of William of Norwich
Beth Berkowitz, Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud
Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim (eds.), The War for Palestine Rewriting the History of 1948
Patricia Cox Miller, The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in Imagination and Religion
Sara Lipton, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography
Joyce Dalsheim, Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self-Determination as Self-Elimination
Mira Balberg, Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature
St. John of Damascus, Three Treatises on the Divine Images
Tertullian, On Idolatry
Joseph Soloveitchik, Abraham’s Journey: Reflections on the Life of the Founding Patriarch
Erin Darby, Interpreting Judean Pillar Figurines Gender and Empire in Judean Apotropaic Ritual
Menachem Nahum of Chernobyl, The Light of the Eyes (Me’or ‘Eynayim)
Martin Shuster, How to Measure a World: A Philosophy of Judaism
Mira Beth Wasserman, Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities
Avraham Grossman, Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe
Michel Serres, Religion: Rereading What is Bound Together
Jacob Neusner, Praxis and Parable: The Divergent Discourses of Rabbinic Judaism: How Halakhic and Aggadic Documents Treat The Bestiary Common to Them Both
Shay Hazkani, Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War
Agata Bielik-Robson, Another Finitude: Messianic Vitalism and Philosophy
Susnne Langer, Form and Feeling: A Theory of Art
David Chalmers, Reality +: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Constantin Zureiq, The Meaning of the Disaster
Daniel Schiff, Abortion in Judaism
David Bleich, “Abortion in Halkakhic Literature”
Petrus Alfonsi, Dialogues against the Jews
Peter the Venerable, Against the Inveterate Obduracy of the Jews
Nahmanides, The Disputation at Barcelona
David Kimhi, Book of the Covenant
John Friedman, Jean Connell Hoff, and Robert Chazan, The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240
Leonard Dinnerstein, Anti-Semitism in America
Robert Chazan, The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom 1000-1500
Nachmanides, The Book of Redemption
“Mainz Anonymous” in Shlomo Eidelberg (trans. & ed.), The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades
Nitzahon Yashan, translated by David Berger in The Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages: A Critical Edition of Nizzahon Vetus
Batsheva Goldman-Ida, Hasidic Art and Kabbalah
Martin Heidegger, Off the Beaten Track
Houria Bouteldja, Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love
Bernard Lewis, The Jews of Islam
Justin Martyr, The First Apology, The Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho
Hans Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life: Toward A Philosophical Biology
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion
Peter Schäfer, Judeophobia: Attitudes towards the Jews in the Ancient World
2021
Jacob Neusner, A Rabbi Talks with Jesus
Joseph Klausner’s Jesus of Nazareth: His Life and Times
Amy-Jill Levine, The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
David Shulman, More Than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India
Mark Taylor, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Thomas Carlson: Image: Three Inquiries in Imagination and Technology
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters
Yoram Bilu, With Us More Than Ever: Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad
William Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites: The Fundamental Institutions
J. Lorand Matory, The Fetish Revisited: Marx: Freud, and the Gods Black People Make
Charles de Brosses, On the Worship of Fetish Gods in Rosalind Morris and Daniel Leonard, The Return of Fetishisms: Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea
al-Ghazali, The Niche of Lights
Sefat Emet
E.B. Tylor, Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
Ayala Fader, Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Tom Segev, A State At Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
Henri Bergson, Two Sources of Morality and Religion
Rashid Khalidi, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
Dina Porat, The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner
Achille Mbembe, Critique of Black Reason
Eric Goldstein, The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity
Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory
Gilbert Simondon, Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information
Jeffrey Gurock, The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community
Martin Heidegger, Four Seminars
Anita Shapira, Israel: A History
Achille Mbembe, On The Postcolony
Michael Govan and Christine Y. Kim (eds.), James Turrell: A Retrospective
William Jones, Is God A White Racist? A Preamble to Black Theology
Louis Fishman, Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland
Nora Rubel, Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination
Hazon Ish, Faith, Trust
Heiko Oberman, The Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Age of Renaissance and Reformation
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies
Laura Levitt, The Objects That Remain
James Cone, Black Theology & Black Power
Rashi, Commentary to Song of Songs
Abraham Melamed, The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture: A History of the Other
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Prophetic Inspiration After the Prophets: Maimonides and Other Medieval Authorities
Atalia Omer, Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians
Ruth Kluger, Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
Robert Bellah: The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Crisis (2nd ed.)
James Davila (trans.), Hekhalot Literature in Translation: Major Texts of Merkavah Mysticism
Leonard Kaplan & Ken Koltun-Fromm (eds.), Imagining the Jewish God
Nicholas of Cusa, Selected Spiritual Writings
2020
Chofetz Chayim, Shmirat Lashon
Peter Schäfer, The Origins of Jewish Mysticism
John Panteleimon Manoussakis, God After Metaphysics: A Theological Aesthetics
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
T.M. Luhrmann, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
Jonathan Garb, Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah
Hayyim Habshush, A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide
Ann Taves, Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things
T.M. Luhrmann, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
Jean Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew
Hannah Arendt, On Violence
Walter Benjamin, Moscow Diary
Walter Benjamin, “Moscow” in Reflections
Heinrich Meier, The Lesson of Carl Schmitt: Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy
William Alston, Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience
Gustav Landauer, Revolution in Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader
Hasia Diner, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962
Sefer Ha’Bahir
Michael Fagenblat (ed.), Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity
Hans Jonas: The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity
Catherine Keller, Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglements
Elliot Wolfson, Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
Sefer Yetzirah
Helène Aylon, Whatever is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist
Jean Paul Sartre, The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination
Baruch Bokser, The Origins of the Seder: The Passover Rite and Early Rabbinic Judaism
Michel Foucault, The Birth of The Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Jacob Neusner, Between Time and Eternity: The Essentials of Judaism
Yisrael Salanter, Ohr Yisrael
James Loeffler, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
Barbara E. Mann, Space and Place in Jewish Studies
Peter Adamson, Philosophy in the Islamic World
Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
Denise Kimber Buell, Why This New Race: Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity
Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
2019
Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space
Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
Moshe Luzzatto, Deot Tevunot
Yehouda Shenhav, The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity
E.B. Tylor, Primitive Culture
Nitzan Lebovic, The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics
Nitzan Lebovic, Zionism and Melancholy: The Short Life of Israel Zarchi
Noam Pines, The Infrahuman: Animality in Modern Jewish Literature
Shlomo Deshen, The Mellah Society: Jewish Community Life in Sheriian Morocco
Jeffrey Kosky, Arts of Wonder: Enchanting Secularity –Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy
Robert Wuthnow, Meaning and Moral Order: Explorations in Cultural Analysis
Elizabeth Grosz, Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space
Elisheva Baumgarten, Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance
Jonathan Garb, Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah
Mara Benjamin, The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought
Yaacov Yadgar, Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism, and Judaism
Gershon Hundert, Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity
Paula Hyman, Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representations of Women
Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic
Richard Serra, Writings and Interviews
Solomon Maimon, The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation
Maxime Rodinson, Israel: A Settler-Colonial State?
George Mitchell (ed.), Temple Towns of Tamil Nadu
Oleg Grabar, The Mediation of Ornament
Ittai Weinryb, Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place
2018
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Institution and Passivity: Course Notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955)
Mira Balberg, Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature
Kalonymous Kalman Shapira, Jewish Spiritual Growth (Heb: Haksharat Ha’Avreikhim)
Samuel Hayyim Brody, Martin Buber’s Theopolitics
Salo Baron, Social and Religious History of the Jews, vo. 2 first edition (1937)
Salo Baron, “Ghetto and Emancipation”
Patricia Clough, The User Unconscious: On Affect, Media, and Measure
Sergey Dolgopolski, Other Others: The Political After the Talmud
David Wolpe, Why Faith Matters
Georges Didi-Huberman, Images In Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz
Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes, The Beginnings of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel
Jacques Rancière, Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, A Student’s Obligation (Heb: Hovat Ha’Talmidim)
Carl Schmitt, Roman Catholicism and Political Form
Jacob Neusner, Rabbinic Political Theory: Religion and Politics in the Mishnah
Claude Lefort, The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategies: Towards A Radical Democratic Society
David Biale, Power and Powerlesness in Jewish History
Aristotle, Politics
Shmuel Trigano, Philosophy of Law: The Political in the Torah
Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal, Em Habanim Semeha
Deborah A. Green, The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature
Thomas Trezise, Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Testimony
Vivian Liska, German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy
Kalonymos Kalmish Shapira, Sacred Fire
Yair Lorberbaum, In God’s Image: Myth, Theology, and Law in Classical Judaism
Leah Hochman, The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn: Aesthetics, Religion, and Morality in the Eighteenth Century
Galit Hasan-Rokem, Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature
Amos Oz, Judas
Rachel Wasserfall (ed.), Women and Water: Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law
Ingrid Anderson, Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust: Making ethics “first philosophy” in Levinas, Wiesel, and Rubenstein
Gideon Grief, We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz
Dalia Ofer and Lenore Weitzman (eds.), Women in the Holocaust
John Corrigan (ed.), Feeling Religion
Peto, Hecht, and Krasuka (eds.), Women and the Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges
Chaya Halberstam, Law & Truth in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature
Hillel Zeitlin, Hasidic Spirituality for a New Era: The Religious Writings of Hillel Zeitlin
Daniel Boyarin, Carnal Israeli: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture
Inbar Raveh, Feminist Rereadings of Rabbinic Literature
2017
Daniel Boyarin, A Travelling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora
Moulie Vidas, Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Christine Hayes (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law
Jalal Al-e Ahmad, The Israeli Republic
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Sarah Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
Norman Stillman, Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times
Sigmund Freud, Future of An Illusion
Sigmund Freud, Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo
Isaiah Horowitz (the Shelah), The Generations of Adam (intro to Shnei Luchot ha’Brit)
William James, Principles of Psychology, vol.1
Max Weber, Ancient Judaism
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Norman Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book
Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society
Joseph Soloveitchik, Halakhic Morality: Essays in Ethics and Masorah
Sasson Somekh, Baghdad, Yesterday: The Making of An Arab Jew
Orit Bashkin, New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq
Carlin Barton & Daniel Boyarin, Imagine No Religion: How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities
Russell McCutcheon, Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse of Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia
Marcel Mauss, The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies
Manuel Vasquez, More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion
Robert Orsi, Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them
Tova Mirvis: The Book of Separation: A Memoir
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories
Charles Long, Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion
Jacob Neusner, Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah
Moses Maimonides, Treatise on Resurrection
Sylvester Johnson, African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy and Freedom
Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
William Pietz, “The Problem of the Fetish, I” “The Problem of the Fetish, II” “The Problem of the Fetish III”
Jacob Neusner, A Religion of Pots and Pans? Modes of Philosophical and Theological Discourse in Ancient Judaism
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Judaism and Ecology: The Created World and Revealed Word
David Mevorach Seidenberg, Kabblah and Ecology: God’s Image in the More-Than-Human-World
Mark Lilla, The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals and Politics
Jacob Neusner, Torah: From Scroll to Symbol in Formative Judaism
Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
Andre Aciman, Out of Egypt: A Memoir
Dominique Janicaud, et al., Phenomenology and the “Theological Turn”: The French Debate
Mark Lilla, The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
Martha Himmelfarb, Jewish Messiah in a Christian Empire: A History if The Book of Zerubbabel
Menachem Kellner (ed.), The Pursuit of the Ideal: Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild
Steven Wasserstrom, Religion After Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos
Elizabeth Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism
Lucette Lagnado, The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
Eve Kosofsky-Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Steven Wasserstrom, Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam
Lucette Lagnado, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Laura Marks, The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses
Joseph Klausner, The Messianic Idea in Israel from Its Beginning to the Completion of the Mishnah
Noam Pianko, Jewish Peoplehood: An American Innovation
2016
Solomon Schechter, Aspects of Rabbinic Theology
Marc Saperstein (ed.), Essential Papers on Messianic Movements and Personalities in Jewish History
Sherry Turkle, Simulation and Its Discontents
Nitzan Lebovic and Roy Ben-Shai (eds.), The Politics of Nihilism: From the Nineteenth Century to Contemporary Israel
Jill Bennet, Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art
Emmanuel Levinas, Existence and Existents
Aaron Hughes, Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast
Giorgio Agamben, Pilate and Jesus
Colby Dickinson and Stephane Symons (eds.), Walter Benjamin and Theology
Shahar Arzy and Moshe Idel, Kabbalah: A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experience
Aaron S. Gross, The Question of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications
Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
Michael Morgan and Steven Weizman, (ed.), Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism
Boaz Huss, The Zohar: Reception and Impact
Jacob Neusner, Messiah in Context: Israel’s History and Destiny in Formative Judaism
Tawfik Canaan, Muhameddean Saints and Sanctuaries in Palestine (1928)
Joseph Dan, Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics
David Novak, Jewish Social Ethics
Marvin Fox (ed.), Modern Jewish Ethics: Theory and Practice
Laurie Zoloth: Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice
Louis E. Newman, Past Imperatives: Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics
Jonathan Wyn Schofer, The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics
Obadyah Maimonides, The Treatise of the Pool
Jonathan Wyn Schofer, Confronting Vulnerability: The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics
Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Times
Donovan O. Schaefer, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power
Christine Hayes, What’s Divine About Divine Law? Early Perspectives
Emmanuel Levinas, “Messianic Texts,” “Beyond Memory,” “The Nations and the Presence of Israel”
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual: Temple, Gender, and Midrash
John D. Caputo, Against Ethics: Contributions to a Poetics of Obligation with Constant Reference to Deconstruction
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Demonic Desires: Yetzer Hara and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity
Eugene Borowitz, Exploring Jewish Ethics: Papers on Covenant Responsibility
Elliot Dorff and Louis E. Newman, Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality: A Reader
Alan Mittleman, A Short Introduction to Jewish Ethics
Louis E. Newman, An Introduction to Jewish Ethics
Elliot Wolfson, Giving Beyond the Gift: Apophais and Overcoming Theomania
David Goberman, Carved Memories: Heritage in Stone from the Russian Jewish Pale
Marc Michael Epstein, Skies of Parchment/Skies of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts
Henri Atlan, Sparks of Randomness, vol.2, The Atheism of Scripture
Hans Driesch, The Science and Philosophy of the Organism
Chayyim of Volozhin, The Soul of Life (Nefesh ha’Hayyim), translated by Eliezer Lipa Moskowitz
Eli Diamond: Mortal Imitations of Divine Life: The Nature of the Soul in Aristotle’s De Anima
Joe Sachs, Aristotle’s Physics: A Guided Study
Joe Sachs, Aristotle’s Metaphysics: A New Translation
Joe Sachs, On the Soul and on Memory and Recollection
Judith Hauptman, Rereading the Rabbis: A Woman’s Voice
Gwynn Kessler, Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives
Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory
Giorgio Agamben, Potentialities
Aristotle, De Anima
Simon de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
2015
Zohar, commentary on Leviticus
Oleg Grabar, The Formation of Islamic Art (Revised and Enlarged Edition)
Rosi Braidotti, Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics
Rosi Braidotti, Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming
Teresa Brennan, The Transmission of Affect
Patricia Crone, God’s Rule: Government and Islam
Jane Bennet, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
Moshe Chayim Luzzato, The Way of Life (Derekh ha’Shem), translated by Aryeh Kaplan
Diana Coole & Samantha Frost (eds.), New Materialism: Ontology, Agency, and Politics
S. Yizhar, Khirbet Khizeh, translated by Nicholas De Lange and Yaacob Dweck
Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman (eds.), Material Feminisms
Sergey Dolgopolski, The Open Past: Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud
Mark S. Smith, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel’s Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts
Hugh Kennedy, When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatst Dynasty
Shulem Deen, All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir
Maimonides, Medical Writings (Treatise on Poisons and their Antidotes, Treatise on Hemorrhoids, Treatise on Cohabitation)
George Santayana, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
Mark S. Smith, God in Translation: Dieties in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Biblical World
Michael D. Coogan and Mark S. Smith, Stories from Ancient Canaan (second edition)
Mark S. Smith, The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (second edition)
Jakob Petuchowski, Theology and Poetry: Studies in Medieval Piyyut
Othmar Keel and Christoph Uehlinger, God, Goddesses, and Images of God in Ancient Israel
Kenneth Seeskin, No Other Gods: The Modern Struggle Against Idolatry
Michael B. Hundley, Gods in Dwellings: Temples and Divine Presence in The Ancient Near East
Max Müller, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion As Illustrated by the Religions of India
Joanne Punzo-Waghorne and Norman Cutler (eds.), Gods of Flesh Gods of Stone: The Embodiment of Divinity in India
Alon Goshen-Gottstein and Eugene Korn (eds.), Jewish Theology and World Religions
Tryggve Mettinger, No Graven Image?: Israelite Aniconism in Its Ancient Near Eastern Contexts
Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art
Oleg Grabar, The Dome of the Rock
Robert Hoyland, In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
Tirosh-Samuelson & Hughes (eds.) Moshe Idel: Representing God
Josh Ellengbogen and Aaron Tugendhaft (eds.), Idol Anxiety
Alain Besançon, The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm
Shai Secunda, The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian Context
Melila Hellner-Eshed, A River Flows Through from Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar
James Kugel, The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible
Will Herberg, Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology
David Greenstein, Roads to Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar
2014
Gershom Scholem, On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism
Diana Eck, Darshan: Seeing the Divine Image in India
Wendy Doniger, The Hindus: An Alternative History
Abraham Ibn Ezra, The Secrets of the Torah: A Translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Sefer Yesod Mora Ve-Sod Ha-Torah
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man’s Quest for God
Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) (translated by Rojcewicz and Vallega-Neu)
Sianne Ngai, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
Meron Benvenisti, Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948
Avraham Grossman, Rashi
Bruno Latour, Rejoiciing
Bruno Latour, A Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns
Jean-Luc Nancy, The Sense of the World
Edmund Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy (second book)
M. Avrum Ehrlich (ed.), The Jewish-Chinese Nexus: A Meeting of Civilizaions
Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure: A Memoir
Michel Serres, The Five Senses
John Sallis, The Force of Imagination
Shmuel Feiner, Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity
Jose Esteban Munoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Hillel Cohen: 1929: Year-Zero of the Israel Palestine Conflict (Hebrew)
Luce Irigaray, Between East and West: From Singularity to Community
Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman
Hannah Arendt, Antisemitism
Jay Geller, The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity
Gianni Vatimo and Michael Marder, Deconstructing Zionism: A Critique of Political Metaphysics
Randi Rashkover and Martin Kavka (eds.), Judaism, Liberalism, & Political Theology
Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making
Susan Solomon, The Jewish Architecture of Louis I. Kahn: Mikveh Israel and the Midcentury American Synagogue
Craig Martin, Masking Hegemony: A Genealogy of Liberalism, Religion, and the Private Sphere
Mel Scult, The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Mordecai Kaplan, Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, vol. 1 1913-1934
Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
Mordecai Kaplan, The Religion of Ethical Nationhood
Vincent Lloyd, The Problem With Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology
Vincent Lloyd, Law and Transcendence: On the Unfinished Project of Gillian Rose
2013
Rachel Neis, The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity
Eliyahu Stern, The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism
Moses Mendelssohn, Last Works (Morning Hours & To The Friends of Lessing)
Yaron Peleg, Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination
Geoffrey Herman, A Prince without a Kingdom: The Exilarch in the Sasanian Era
Suzanne L. Marchand, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race, and Scholarship
Aaron Hughes, The Invention of Jewish Identity: Bible, Philosophy, and the Art of Translation
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Deleuze, Foucault
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You’d enjoy my book “The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness” (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press) that explores many of the ideas that you develop in your blog. I enjoyed your review of Peg Olin’s new book. We had a good dialogue when she visited with me in Ra’anana last month.
Mel