The book A Conceptual Approach to the Mekilta allows the reader to obtain a deeper insight into rabbinic literature. It shows, for example, how rabbinic concepts differ from the ideas of the Bible, and yet that tabbinic concepts always possess biblical antecedents. The conceptual approach also solves a major problem of rabbinic literature - How are the midrashic statements related to each other?

215 pages, paperback, 12.5cmX18.5cm, good condition: pages are unmarked and tight, some rubbing to covers.

The Mekilta is a tannaitic Midrash, and it consists of interpretations of extensive portions of the book of Exodus. Lauterbach has pointed out that the Mekilta, unlike other tannaitic Midrashim, contains more haggadic, non-juristic, than halakic, juristic interpretations. This preponderance of Haggadah is to be accounted for, as he says, by the fact that the Book of Exodus ``contains by far more narrative than law.``
(Max Kadushin: A Conceptual Approach to the Mekilta, page 1)

An account on Israel in Old Testament times, from earliest origins until the Maccabees. For this edition the author has rewritten a number of sections, to take into account recent studies and archaeological discoveries.

501 pages, soft cover, good condition.

he First half of the second millennium B.C. (roughly 2000-1550) brings us to the age of Israel's origins. It was probably during the course of these centuries that Father Abraham set out from Haran, with his family, his flocks, and his herds, to seek land and seed in the place his God would show him. Or, to put it otherwise, there took place a migration to Palestine of seminomadic peoples, among whom were to be found the ancestors of Israel. With that, there began that chain of events so portentous for world history and so redemptive—the believing man would say so divinely guided—which we call the history of Israel.

Contents: Le Conflict de 2 motofs dans le livre de Jonas: la limite de la prophetie et le defi de la sagesse / Toshiaki Nishimura. Hosea IV in the Septuagint Version / Takamitsu Muraoka. Deut 6:4-5. Perspectives as a Statemaent of Nationalism and of Identity of Confession / Yoshihide Suzuki. Individual - und Gemeindeethik bei Lukas / Sasagu Arai. Viele glaubten an ihn - Auseinandersetzung mit dem Glauben im Johannesevangelium / Yu Ibuki. A Neglected Literary Feature of the Christ-Hymn in Phil 2:6-11 / Takeshi Nagata. Neue Vordchlage zur Lesung und Ubersetzung Thomasevangelium Log 21, 103 und 68b / Katsumi Toyoshima.

241 pages, paperback, good condition: top of front cover and spine are a bit chipped, stamps indicating that the book is from the library of Prof. Binjamin Mazar - an impoertant Biblical archeologist and former president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Rare book.

This encyclopedia lists the majority of the geographical names mentioned in the Bible, identifying them as far as possible, describing the excavations that have been carried out at or near them, and analysing the importance of the finds they have yielded. As well as tracing their history in Biblical times, the encyclopedia discusses historical references to them in later periods up to the Arab conquest. With over 600 entries and  225 illustrations.

Oer 90 stories from the Bible, retold by the author : Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel; Jacob in Exile; Potiphar's Wife; The Burning Bush; The Walls of Jericho; David and Saul; Absalom, My Son; Elijah versus Ahab; Jeremiah and the Fall of Jerusalem; and many more. With illustrations by Gino'achille.

Try to imagine, if you can, what it is like to have no possessions at all, nothing, not even the language of the country you've just arrived in as a refugee.

The book incorporates the latest biblical archaeological findings and interpretations. The material is presented by subject matter: cities; architectural elements; cultic structures; tombs; waterworks; agriculture; system of weights and measures; tools and utensils, and more.

290 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition.

Knowledge of architecture in the biblical period has been limited both by the lack of information on architectural details in the ancient records and by the infrequent survival of the buildings themselves as the passage of the centuries the activities of succeeding generations of builders contributed to their eventual destruction. Of those buildings which have been found among the ruined cities of Canaan and early Israel, we are fortunate if one or two layers of masonry remain above the foundation level.

This book is a guide to 210 places named in the Old and New Testament which have become associated with important biblical personalities and events. Each entry gives the relevant biblical reference, location, a comprehensive description of the site, and archaeological data. Most of the important biblical places are in Israel, but the guide also covers other countries, which appear in the bible including Italy, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Jordan and the Sinai.

Paphos - On the western coast of the island of Cyprus are two ancient towns named Paphos. Old Paphos was established around 1300 B.C. by settlers from Mycenean Greece. It was the centre of the cult of the goddess Aphrodite and capital of the Kingdom of Paphos which, in the first half of the 1st millennium B.C., spread over much of western Cyprus. Towards the end of the 4th century B.C. the last king of the Kingdom of Paphos established New (Nea) Paphos.

Biblical events printed in a newspaper format. "Abram Found Guilty of Destroying Idols"; "Sodom and Gomorrah Wiped Out in Worst Disaster Since Flood"; "Prince Moses is a Hebrew!"...

The first printed critical edition of the Latin text of a Biblical commentary by Stephen Langton (c. 1190). The English introduction, written by Avrom Saltman, discusses the sources of the commentary, its methodology, its relation to Jewish exegesis and its place in the history of medieval Biblical exegesis. Please note that the commentary is written in Latin.

272 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: some age spots on endpapers and jacket's flaps. Inscribed in Hebrew by Avrom Saltman - the editor and writer of the introduction.

Dr. Freund tells the story of the famous Jerusalem windows which were designed by Marc Chagall, the renowned artist. His birth in the Russian town of Vitabsk, his devotion to the Bible, and his travels through Egypt, Syria, and the land of Israel and countries of the Bible are recalled; the five steps preparatory to making the design and the selection of colors are discussed; and the process involved in making the glass and achieving the desired shades is explained. Thus are given the art, science, and interpretation of the windows, which are based on the Biblical account of the twelve sons of Jacob. The book is particularly dedicated to young people. Illustrated with 13 plates.

64 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition.

Der grosse franzosische Maler Marc Chagall liess seine Staffelei plozlich stehen, kniete auf dem Boden nieder und began, seltsam geformte, bunte Stoffstucke, Papierfetzen und andered Material auf ein grosses weisses Blatt Papier zu werfen.

This book records the results of the excavations carried out between 1961 and 1967 and relates them to the results of earlier excavations. Some chapters describe the layout of Biblical Jerusalem and the problems that the excavations attempted to solve: the boundaries of David's City, for instance, and the authenticity of the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Key topics such as the Spring Gihon, the Pool of Siloam, and the rebuilding of the city walls are given special attention.

Digging up Jerusalem began just a hundred years before the recent excavations of the British School of Archaeology and its associates completed the recent campaign in 1967. The Palestine Exploration Fund was founded in 1865. The middle years of the nineteenth century constituted a period in which the great civilizations of western Asia were being revealed by the spade of the archaeologists, and the interest aroused was very great.

Another book you may enjoy:
Historical Sites in Israel

Color photographs, most of them taken in Israel, accompanied by verses - in both Hebrew and English - from Ecclesiastes.

`Go Forth to the Land That I Will Show You`
The beginning of the history of the children of Israel as told in the Bible dates back to Abraham, the first Patriarch, who lived in Mesopotamia around the 17th century B.C.E. Heeding the words of the Lord, he took his wife, Sarah, and his nephew, Lot, and departed for a new Land. `When they arrived in the land of Canan, Abraham passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh.` (Genesis 12:5-6). Why specify that Abraham camped `at the oak of Moreh`? The sentence which follows is the key: `The Canananites were then in the land.`
Abraham came into Canaan with `cattle, silver and gold.` (Genesis 13:2) Had he camped near the existing Caanite settlements, his flocks would have caused great damage to the local crops.

The book potrays varied aspects of life in biblical times: agriculture, animals, arts and crafts, business transactions, defense, homes, jewlery, musical instruments, nutrition, water supply, professions and trades, and more. With over 200 black and white illustrations.

Agriculture
Cultivation of the soil is an endless cord that has bound together happy and universal experiences of people in ancient Bible lands for more than seventy centuries. The warm gold of Sumerian harvest fields, mature in the era of Abraham and for thousands of years before that; the flash of ruby sunsets reflected in Nile canals veining lush fields with throbbing life; the colorful emerald of early spring in the fields of Canaan - these make an ornament worthy of the rulers of men.

The book Ever Since Sinai deals with Revelation and Torah and is meant to be a "phenomenology of Torah". Table of Conents: Looking at a Marriage Contract; Love Letters; "Lord, Our God, Sovereign of the Universe"; Who Hast Chosen Us; Giver of the Torah; A Tree of Life; To Study and to Do.

132 pages, paperback, good condition: age shows but still clean and tight.

The visitor at a Jewish museum can spend hours in the contemplation of illuminated Hebrew marriage contracts, - the most beautiful among them coming from 17th and 18th century Italy. The artist can study the colors, the drawings, and the illuminations. The historian may muse on the dates, the names, and the places. The student of Jewish Law will check on the accuracy of the terminology.
(Jakob J. Petuchowski: Ever Since Sinai, page 1)

Another book you may enjoy:
Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew
 

A translation of the biblical books: Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micha into the English of today.

161 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition.

The texts of Genesis and Exodus (the Jerusalem version) accompanied by explanatory historical notes, religious paintings and full-colour photographs of the Holy Land.

Using revealed knowledge in the Bible (Old and New Testaments) as a starting point, the author discusses the missing dimension of health knowledge, natural foods, right eating habits, proper digestion and nutrition, fasting and health, and proper elimination.

Several millenia ago, God gave a people the opportunity to live a basically disease-free existence.
Many of the physical laws, statutes and spiritual laws that God gave them contributed directly to the elimination of disease at its source.

Articles ans abstracts. From the Table of Contebts: A. Literature - Hatikvah: Anthem and Author; Sun Myth in the Works of D.H. Lawrence and Saul Tschernichowsky - A Comparative Analysis; Redemption and Prayer in the Hebrew Yemenite Poetry; and more.  B. Biblical and Post-Biblical Studies - Enthroned Figures in Biblical Literature and Near Eastern Art; Palestinian Parties and Politics that Shaped the Old Testament; and more. C. Language and Lexicography - A Historical Approach to the Modern Study of Hebrew Grammar; New Evidences for the Language of Galilee / Golan: 1st-5th Centuries; and more. D. Methodology - The Teaching of Hebrew at Church-Oriented Colleges, Universities, and Seminaries; Approaches to Reading in Modern Hebrew. E. Studies in Religion - Speaking of God Today: Jews and Lutherans in Conversation; and more. F. Social Studies - The Social Anthropology of Israel; and more.