Ebraismo /

YEAR OF PUBLICATION /

2007

PRICE /

22,00 EURO

AUTHOR /

Sonia Luzzati , Roberto Della Rocca

CURATOR /

Matilde Battistini

STATUS /

In catalogo

TOTAL PAGES /

336

ISBN /

978883704688

LANGUAGE /

Italiano

SERIES /

Dizionari delle religioni

BINDING /

brossura con alette

FORMAT /

13,5 x 20

The third volume of the series dedicated to religions deals with Judaism, an extremely topical subject, as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict demonstrates. This dictionary, edited by two renowned experts, has been conceived to answer questions and clarify doubts. It investigates the theological contents and the basic principles of Judaism from the age of Abraham up to present time (the conception of God, of the world, of man and community); the spread of religion in the world and in history; the holy texts and the Talmudic exegesis; the different tendencies of thought (from kabbalà to sionism), symbols and rites (from menorà to maghen David, from bar mitzvà to kippur) that characterize Jewish life and habits