Culture First!: Promoting Standards in the New Media Age (Media-Cultural Studies)

Challenges the fashionable positions in cultural and media studies that technological change has made traditional concepts of standards and quality in media obsolescent and that users can feel secure about standards because they actively participate in creating media culture. The eight essays argue that the proper study of culture is normative, and can best be pursued by reviving the distinction between our best self and our ordinary self, by articulating aesthetic and ethical standards, and by recognizing the specific cultural values of the printed word and reading. Distributed by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Politics & Social Sciences

Dyson, Kenneth

Homolka, Walter

Social Sciences

UNKNO

As Israelis and Arabs try to reach a settlement, this timely study offers a valuable historical dimension, from the Jewish point of view, to the main issue involved - the idea of peace. The authors maintain that peace has always played an important role in Jewish thought, that in fact Judaism as a religion is characterized by the striving for peace. They reach this conclusion after examining a variety of sources, ranging from the biblical texts of Old Israel to the Talmudic tradition and Jewish philosophy of religion up until the twentieth century.

The Gate to Perfection: The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought

Friedlander, Albert H.

Religion & Spirituality

Continuum Intl Pub Group

There is no doubt about Baeck's contribution to Jewish theology in the twentieth century: it has been significant. Without ever departing completely from the ancient wellsprings of orthodoxy, he was a studious observer of the intellectual currents of his time and ambience; under theinfluence of liberal Jewish theology, he drew on and reworked those currents, weaving them into his own theological thought. A special aspect of Baeck's work is that he remained in critical confrontation with Christianity throughout his life, acting as a kind of builder of bridges between the two faiths." (From the Introduction.) It is on this aspect that the author focuses his study inwhich he examines Leo Baeck's critical evaluation of Martin Luther and Protestantism. At the same time Homolka shows how close the intellectual links between liberal Christian and liberal Jewish theology had become before the Holocaust: both sides attempted a new definition of the "essence" of their faiths and were searching for a new identity in an increasingly pluralistic and secular society.

Jewish Identity in Modern Times: Leo Baeck and German Protestantism (European Judaism (Hardcover))

History

World

Berghahn Books

This book instructively introduces the reader to the basics of Jewish law. It gives a detailed, cutting-edge analysis of contemporary public and private law in the State of Israel, as well as Israel’s legal culture, its system of government, and the roles of its democratic institutions: the executive, parliament, and judiciary. The book examines issues of Holocaust, law and religion, constitutionalization, and equality.

Jewish and Israeli Law - An Introduction

Shetreet, Shimon

Foreign & International Law

de Gruyter

This book provides a concise introduction to the basics of Jewish law. It gives a detailed analysis of contemporary public and private law in the State of Israel, as well as Israel`s legal culture, its system of government, and the roles of its democratic institutions: the executive, parliament, and judiciary. The book examines issues of Holocaust, law and religion, constitutionalization, and equality.

Jesus von Nazareth: Im Spiegel jüdischer Forschung

Christian Books & Bibles

Hentrich & Hentrich

Das Judentum hat viele Gesichter: Eine Einführung in die religiösen Strömungen der Gegenwart

Rosenthal, Gilbert S.

Historical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move "back to the Jewish roots!" For Jewish scholars it was a means to position Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture. As a consequence, Jews now feel more at ease to relate to Jesus as a Jew.For Walter Homolka the Christian challenge now is to formulate a new Christology: between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God, and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity.

Jewish Jesus Research and Its Challenge to Christology Today (Jewish and Christian Perspectives) (Jewish and Christian Perspectives, 30)

Brill Academic Pub

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