At once a study of biblical theology and modern Jewish thought, this volume describes a “participatory theory of revelation” as it addresses the ways biblical authors and contemporary theologians alike understand the process of revelation and hence the authority of the law. Benjamin Sommer maintains that the Pentateuch’s authors intend not only to convey God’s will but to express Israel’s interpretation of and response to that divine will. Thus Sommer’s close readings of biblical texts b...

What do Jews think scripture is? How do the People of the Book conceive of the Book of Books? In what ways is it authoritative? Who has the right to interpret it? Is it divinely or humanly written? And have Jews always thought about the Bible in the same way?In seventeen cohesive and rigorously researched essays, this volume traces the way some of the most important Jewish thinkers throughout history have addressed these questions from the rabbinic era through the medieval Islamic w...

Sommer utilizes a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Though the dominant strains of biblical religion rejected it, a monotheistic version of this theological intuition is found in some biblical texts. Later Jewish and Christian thinkers inherited this ancient way of thinking; ideas such as the sefirot in Kabbalah and the trinity in Christianity represent a late version of this theology. This book for...

Wer sagt eigentlich, dass man Ostereier nur im Frühling bemalen kann? Benjamin, Otto und Lea probieren es aus und finden für ihre Sommer-Eier eine doppelte Verwendung. Außerdem erfahren wir, wie Aufräumen Spaß machen kann, warum ein Kamel plötzlich unsichtbar wird und was Benjamin für Karla Kolumna dichtet. 1. Ein Osterei im Sommer 2. Ein Hoch auf die Ordnung 3. Das unsichtbare Kamel 4. Benjamin reimt

Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts to give voice to these diverse imaginings of the Jewish God, and offers these collected essays and poems as a living text meant to provoke a substantive and nourishing dialogue. A responsive, liv...

El INAH, a través del Proyecto de Investigación y Conservación del sitio arqueológico Oxtankah, dirigido por la arqueóloga Hortensia de Vega Nova, realizó investigaciones arqueológicas al sur del estado de Quintana Roo durante dos décadas. Valga la publicación de estos tres volúmenes para difundir los resultados obtenidos.

Schlafliedchen Text: Ulli Herzog/Musik: Heiko Rüsse, KIDDINX Studios 1. Benjamins kunterbunte Frühlingsblumen 2. Der kleine Singvogel 3. Die summende Sommerwiese 4. Benjamins Sommernachtstraum 5. Ein Drachen für Klein-Känga 6. Herbstlicher Bastelspaß 7. Schlittenfahrt mit Eric und Emil Eisbär 8. Der Schnee-Elefant Schlafliedchen Text: Ulli Herzog/Musik: Heiko Rüsse, KIDDINX Studios

Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that feeling funny is good for you, and for society. In Bilingual Aesthetics Sommer invites readers to make mischief with meaning, to play games with language, and to allow errors to stimulate new ways of thinking. Today’s global world has outgrown any one-to-one correlation between a people and a language; ...

The book is based on the lectures delivered at the XCIII Session of the École de Physique des Houches, held in August, 2009. The aim of the event was to familiarize the new generation of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows with the principles and methods of modern lattice field theory, which aims to resolve fundamental, non-perturbative questions about QCD without uncontrolled approximations. The emphasis of the book is on the theoretical developments that have shaped the field in the la...