- July 2003
19.90 Euro
2003. 224 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-7879-6558-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-6558-7 - John Wiley & Sons






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Detailed description
Like most Christians, Mary Blye Howe was uninformed about Jewish ritual and tradition. To satisfy her curiosity she joined a Jewish study group held in the home of a Hasidic rabbi. A Baptist Among the Jews is Howe's first-person account of her eye-opening experience of studying with that welcoming group and how this experience led her to a deeper, richer relationship with her God. While learning about the traditions of Judaism and studying the Torah, Howe discovered a new world of worship and ritual that expanded her experience to include several different Jewish groups, among them Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox. She reveled in the joys of arguing with God (even though God always wins), synagogue-hopping on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, and dancing with a sefer torah through the streets of Dallas. Page after page, we join Howe on her religious quest and discover how her once-narrow concept of God has expanded with her ability to read the scriptures and understand this new faith. Howe's profound and transforming experiences helped her develop a new sense of worship-- one that eschews spectatorship in favor of participation.

From the contents
Acknowledgments.

Foreword by John Wilson.

Chapter One: Hanging with the Jews.

Chapter Two: Arguing with God.

Chapter Three: Dancing with the Torah.

Chapter Four: Discovering the Passionate Hebrew God.

Chapter Five: Women in Yarmulkes.

Chapter Six: Men in Black Hats.

Chapter Seven: Hungering for My Roots.

Chapter Eight: A Spiritual Journey.

Afterword by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner.

Judaism 101.

Glossary.

Recommended reading.

Notes.

References.

The author.