Translating the Bible by Theodor Gaster For the past fifty years there has been a growing feeling among scholars and ministers of religion that the time…
The “Sons of Light:”The Spiritual Grandeur of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Theodor Gaster In the tumult of interpretation and argument over the Dead Sea Scrolls, and over the question of whether the Jewish…
Modernizing the Jewish Prayerbook:Revisions That Sacrifice the Spirit by Theodor Gaster Throughout the ages, the Prayerbook has occupied a central position in Jewish life.
The Study of Man: Pagan Ideas and the Jewish Mind by Theodor Gaster Almost everybody knows by now that Christmas and Easter and many of the saints' days of the Church go back…
Cedars of Lebanon: Poems of the Festivals by Theodor Gaster Yom Kippur is more than a Day of Atonement on which individuals purge their sins by the threefold process of…
Cedars of Lebanon: Prayers of Penitence by Theodor Gaster On each of the Jewish festivals and Holy Days —and likewise on many Sabbaths—the traditional services of the synagogue are…
Cedars of Lebanon: The Banquet of God by Theodor Gaster THE Aramaic poem Akdamuth is one of the most famous elements of the traditional morning service on the first day…
The Old Testament: Keystone of Human Culture, by William A. Irwin by Theodor Gaster MOST people take it for granted that the teachings of the Old Testament are one of the prime foundations of…
Yizkor: The Living and the Dead:The Community as Woven by Memory by Theodor Gaster INCREASINGLY, the traditional Yizkor or Memorial Service tends to cast a spell upon the minds and sentiments of Jews in…
The True Glory of the Maccabean Revolt:What Liberty was Fought For? by Theodor Gaster THOSE of us who have been brought up to believe that the Chanukah light is a brave candle shining in…
What the Feast of Booths Celebrates:The Meaning of Succoth for Moderns by Theodor Gaster OF THE three seasonal festivals which punctuate the Jewish year, the Feast of Succoth (or Booths) has suffered most from…
The First Fruits and the Giving of the Law:The Meaning of Shavuoth by Theodor Gaster Judaism has always insisted that its God is a God of history as well as of nature.
