Uplifting and amusing, this guide, written by two brilliant rabbis, leads readers to discover and acknowledge their own expertise and resilience in coping with life's inevitable trials, the lessons they have learned, and the guidance they, in turn, can provide for others.

How to Get Up When Life Gets You Down: A Companion and Guide

Magonet, Jonathan

Blue, Lionel

Harpercollins

The Blue Guide to the Here and the Hereafter

Christian Books & Bibles

HarperCollins, Publishers

With the wit and imaginative insight which he showed so brilliantly in A Rabbi's Bible, here Jonathan Magonet presents a series of 'Bible lives', pen portraits of a galaxy of figures from the Hebrew Bible, major and minor, and demonstrates that in the hands of a good interpreter it is also the case that the 'Bible lives'. The presentation is inspired not least by a different star, the late Pearl Bailey, to whom he once taught Bible at Leo Baeck College and who commended to him the technique of 'first a fast number to get their attention. Then a slower one. Then talk to them a little just to keep them interested, and hit them again with something fast.' So here we have heroes and heroines - Shiphrah and Puah, Ritzpah and Zipporah, Jephthah and the author of Psalm 137, leading up to Abraham; loyalties, particularly as exemplified in the characters from Ruth; `baddies' like Pharaoh, Goliath, Dathan and Abiram; and comic turns, all leading up to a set piece on Esther. Then come victims and politicians and a little set of parodies of biblical interpretations, `Purim spiels'. As a grand finale there is a fascinating account of Jonah. Pearl Bailey would have applauded!

Bible Lives

SCM Press

A Rabbi Reads the Psalms

Trinity Press International

Jonathan Magonet comes to the Bible with enthusiasm, wit and an infectious humour rare in Bible scholars. As a rabbi he brings the insights of two thousand years of Jewish Bible exegesis, but combines them with the critical skills of today's literary analysis of biblical texts. He draws on his own creativity as poet and songwriter both to 'read' the biblical text and use it as a springboard for exploring the character of biblical personalities. He moves comfortably between the worlds of religious tradition and the questioning of the modern secular person. His skills as a popular lecturer and broadcaster help shape this lively book. `How a Donkey Reads a Bible' explores the biases and presuppositions we bring to our reading of the biblical text. 'My Part in the Fall of "King David' recounts Jonathan Magonet's absurd experiences as technical adviser on a biblical epic but shows how many of the 'special effects' of films have their literary equivalent in the pages of the Bible. He introduces us to fellow Bible enthusiasts who illuminate it through approaching it from a variety of disciplines - theology, literary criticism, psychoanalysis and politics. This book opens up the Bible in a variety of unexpected ways so that all readers will find their perspective and understanding changed and broadened. Its gentle introduction to the fascination of biblical Hebrew will prove a further stimulus to explore the Bible in its original language. Whatever your starting point, after reading it you will never find the Bible quite the same again.

Rabbi's Bible

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

DO MEN AND WOMEN read the Scriptures differently? Do they bring different concerns and presuppositions to the text, use different methods? read with different eyes? And should they? These are some of the basic questions addressed in this book. Searching the Scriptures is a feminist introduction, and it differs from any book in that genre ever written. It charts a comprehensive approach to feminist interpretation and prepares the way for a second volume which will engage in critical feminist commentary on the Christian Testament and other early Christian writings. The two-volume commentary project grew out of a five-year-long series of discussions in the "Women in the Biblical World" section of the Society of Biblical Literature, involving feminist scholars from all over the world. Their aim was to explore the ambivalent feminist legacy of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, the centenary of which falls in 1995. Like that volume, Searching the Scriptures underlines the political character of biblical interpretation. However, it does not adopt the conceptual and methodological approach of The Woman's Bible, nor, like another recent study, does it limit its theoretical focus to gender. Rather, it seeks to be inclusive, ecumenical and multicultural. It brings together the best in contemporary feminist biblical and historical studies to explore critical issues of perspective, method and communication. This first volume explores the many facets of feminist hermeneutics, outlines modes of enquiry and theological approaches, samples the history of interpretation by women, and shows possible ways forward for feminist biblical studies for both worship and teaching. ELISABETH SCHUSSLER FIORENZA is the Krister Stendahl Professor of Harvard Divinity School and the first woman president of the Society of Biblical Literature.

A rabbi reads the Psalms (v. 1)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

The Hebrew Bible is subversive, even dangerous, and we take a risk When we read it. It is not just a pious document to be handled with kid gloves; to do so is to forget its wide sweep of concerns, its overarching humanity and its extraordinary power to move and challenge. To do so is also to forget that on some levels it is folk literature which in its origins spoke directly to people and has continued to do so over the millennia. That is the challenging argument of Jonathan Magonet's new book. In it he invites readers to take another look at the different materials to be found within the Bible, recognizing just how unconventional they are once freed from our prejudices against it.After an opening chapter developing the main theme, he discusses a series of central topics: Abraham and Justice, Exodus and Liberation, The Chosen People and the Peoples, and the Book of Jonah and the Day of Atonement. A chapter on The Biblical Roots of Jewish Identity' forms a bridge to the final section, consisting of eight unconventional sermons delivered over the years at the Hedwig Dransfeld Haus, Bendorf, Germany, which has proved a unique place for encounter between Jews, Christians and Muslims. Here a Jewish Rabbi who has already gained a wide readership among Christians reaches out yet further and makes an important contribution to inter-faith understanding.

The Subversive Bible

Rabbi Magonet's love of the Hebrew Bible developed whilst studying to be a Rabbi. Studying the Bible became a source of comfort, challenge and religious growth, without sacrificing the importance of the scientific approaches of study. This book opens up the Bible so that all readers will find their perspective and understanding changed.

A Rabbi Reads the Bible

Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd

After teaching the Psalms for over twenty years, Magonet has found very little on rabbinical interpretation, ancient, mediaeval or modern. This is an introduction to the Hebrew text that gives access to the richness and complexity of the language of the Psalms to the non-Hebrew reader.

Written by a leading rabbi, this is a lively and enlightening guide to Jewish history, Jewish readings of the Bible, rabbinical Judaism, the changing roles of Jewish women, and Jewish law, liturgy, rituals, festivals, dreams, and visions. Guided by the notion that "Judaism should be your home, not your prison," Rabbi Magonet writes "in the spirit of one who tries to live both within and without its walls, to make it a place where guests are welcome and to enjoy excursions elsewhere from time to time." An accessible, witty, and engaging exploration of Jewish faith, life, and history, as well as the issues facing Judaism today. Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet is Principal of Leo Baeck College, London. His previous books include A Rabbi's Bible, A Rabbi Reads the Psalms, and The Subversive Bible.

The Explorer's Guide to Judaism (The Explorer's Guides)

Hodder&Stoughton

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How to Get Up When Life Gets You Down: A Companion and Guide

The Blue Guide to the Here and the Hereafter

Bible Lives

A Rabbi Reads the Psalms

Rabbi's Bible

A rabbi reads the Psalms (v. 1)

The Subversive Bible

A Rabbi Reads the Bible

A Rabbi Reads the Psalms

The Explorer's Guide to Judaism (The Explorer's Guides)