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Informationen zum Autor Mary Blye Howe is a cradle Southern Baptist who has found a warm, welcoming second home among several Jewish congregations in the Dallas, Texas, area. She has published over 100 articles in more than 60 diverse periodicals, including Entrepreneur, the Dallas Morning News, and the Chicago Tribune. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Join Baptist Mary Blye Howe on an exhilarating journey to spiritual wholeness through deep and lasting friendships with several Jewish communities. No other book! memoir or otherwise! describes with such depth and passion the power of Christians recovering the Jewish roots of their faith. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xvi Foreword xviii Chapter 1 Hanging with the Jews 1 Chapter 2 Arguing with God 23 Chapter 3 Dancing with the Torah 39 Chapter 4 Discovering the Passionate Hebrew God 67 Chapter 5 Women in Yarmulkes 89 Chapter 6 Men in Black Hats 107 Chapter 7 Hungering for My Roots 133 Chapter 8 A Spiritual Journey 153 Afterword 169 Judaism 101 173 Glossary 189 Recommended Reading 193 Notes 195 References 199 The Author 203 ...
