the hellenization of judea under herod
... Herod the Great. His name conjures up images monumental building projects alongside of tales ofbrutal repression and murder. Within the Christian community, Herod became the archetype of evil, most noted where the author of Matthew links him through the slaughter of the innocents to the vile Pharaoh ...
... Herod the Great. His name conjures up images monumental building projects alongside of tales ofbrutal repression and murder. Within the Christian community, Herod became the archetype of evil, most noted where the author of Matthew links him through the slaughter of the innocents to the vile Pharaoh ...
Pronunciation of Azrael
... was also named Azrael). Later books also state a scribe named Salathiel, who was quoted as saying, "I, Salathiel, who is also Ezra". Again, depending on certain views of Christian spirituality, this could be seen as angelic influence from Ezrael/Azrael on Salathiel, though this view of spirituality ...
... was also named Azrael). Later books also state a scribe named Salathiel, who was quoted as saying, "I, Salathiel, who is also Ezra". Again, depending on certain views of Christian spirituality, this could be seen as angelic influence from Ezrael/Azrael on Salathiel, though this view of spirituality ...
SECTION 2.2 Covenant, Land, Tikkun Olam
... Prayers for a return to Israel and Jerusalem are included in daily prayers as well as many holiday observances and special events. Living outside of Israel is viewed as an unnatural state for a Jew. The world outside of Israel is often referred to as "galut," which is usually translated as "diaspora ...
... Prayers for a return to Israel and Jerusalem are included in daily prayers as well as many holiday observances and special events. Living outside of Israel is viewed as an unnatural state for a Jew. The world outside of Israel is often referred to as "galut," which is usually translated as "diaspora ...
THE 364-DAY “QUMRAN” CALENDAR AND THE BIBLICAL
... Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1994). Building on Albani’s work, Johann Maier has theorized that these calendars are part of the development of the priestly cult during the exile (Die QumranEssener: Die Texte Vom Toten Meer. Vol. 3. München/Basel: UTB, 1996), esp. p. 124. Philippe Guillaume has recently restated ...
... Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1994). Building on Albani’s work, Johann Maier has theorized that these calendars are part of the development of the priestly cult during the exile (Die QumranEssener: Die Texte Vom Toten Meer. Vol. 3. München/Basel: UTB, 1996), esp. p. 124. Philippe Guillaume has recently restated ...
Accounting for Judaism in the Study of American Messianic Judaism
... Since its modern renaissance in the mid-1970s, the Messianic Jewish movement in America has grown from a handful of house churches to a network of hundreds of synagogues and congregations. Mainline American Judaism has unanimously rejected the argument that Jews who believe in Jesus continue to be m ...
... Since its modern renaissance in the mid-1970s, the Messianic Jewish movement in America has grown from a handful of house churches to a network of hundreds of synagogues and congregations. Mainline American Judaism has unanimously rejected the argument that Jews who believe in Jesus continue to be m ...
the booklet Traditions
... person often creates his or her own set of rules. Although there are precise and detailed rules about what food is kosher – that is “fit to eat” according to Jewish law – people often interpret the rules their own way. The traditional rules forbid shellfish, pork, horse meat and certain species of f ...
... person often creates his or her own set of rules. Although there are precise and detailed rules about what food is kosher – that is “fit to eat” according to Jewish law – people often interpret the rules their own way. The traditional rules forbid shellfish, pork, horse meat and certain species of f ...
Aphrahat‟s Demonstrations: A Conversation with the Jews of
... was very much interested in this debate. She disagreed with Neusner, arguing that emerging Rabbinic Judaism and Aphrahat‟s Christian community had much more in common than only the Hebrew Bible, and that another layer of shared tradition was foundational for the future interpretive practices of “Jew ...
... was very much interested in this debate. She disagreed with Neusner, arguing that emerging Rabbinic Judaism and Aphrahat‟s Christian community had much more in common than only the Hebrew Bible, and that another layer of shared tradition was foundational for the future interpretive practices of “Jew ...
Congregation Ohav Shalom‟s Passover Guide 5776/2016
... of the importance it places on conveying the story and meaning of Passover to the next generation. It is the children‟s role to ask the Four Questions; The uniqueness of Passover is encapit is our role to impress upon them the sulated in the above passage. It significance of the answers, for we teac ...
... of the importance it places on conveying the story and meaning of Passover to the next generation. It is the children‟s role to ask the Four Questions; The uniqueness of Passover is encapit is our role to impress upon them the sulated in the above passage. It significance of the answers, for we teac ...
here - Congregation Ohav Shalom
... of the importance it places on conveying the story and meaning of Passover to the next generation. It is the children’s role to ask the Four Questions; The uniqueness of Passover is encapit is our role to impress upon them the sulated in the above passage. It significance of the answers, for we teac ...
... of the importance it places on conveying the story and meaning of Passover to the next generation. It is the children’s role to ask the Four Questions; The uniqueness of Passover is encapit is our role to impress upon them the sulated in the above passage. It significance of the answers, for we teac ...
Public religion in Samson Raphael Hirsch and Samuel Hirsch`s
... a hermeneutics of disclosure, one that reveals the continuity of meaning in Jewish public acts of religious observance. For Hirsch, the academic study of Judaism (Wissenschaft) underscoresthe timeless and uniform meaning ofJewish ritual observance. An appropriate academic approach to Jewish commandm ...
... a hermeneutics of disclosure, one that reveals the continuity of meaning in Jewish public acts of religious observance. For Hirsch, the academic study of Judaism (Wissenschaft) underscoresthe timeless and uniform meaning ofJewish ritual observance. An appropriate academic approach to Jewish commandm ...
Isaac M. Wise, His Life, Work and Thought by James G. Heller, 597
... So is the English Jew an Englishman, the French Jew a Frenchman, and the same is the case in Germany, Hungary, Italy, and also in Russia, although they are oppressed, yet they are intensely Russian. It may be put down as a fact, American and European Jews would not immigrate to Palestine, not even i ...
... So is the English Jew an Englishman, the French Jew a Frenchman, and the same is the case in Germany, Hungary, Italy, and also in Russia, although they are oppressed, yet they are intensely Russian. It may be put down as a fact, American and European Jews would not immigrate to Palestine, not even i ...
Reading Ezekiel`s Exagoge: Tragedy, Sacrificial Ritual, and the
... Neither scholar considers the role which Ezekiel’s generic experiment plays within his text. When the Exagoge’s hybridity has been considered, scholarly opinion has been broadly divided: either the synthesis of Jewish Bible and Greek tragedy is seen as unproblematic “acculturation,”21 or Ezekiel’s a ...
... Neither scholar considers the role which Ezekiel’s generic experiment plays within his text. When the Exagoge’s hybridity has been considered, scholarly opinion has been broadly divided: either the synthesis of Jewish Bible and Greek tragedy is seen as unproblematic “acculturation,”21 or Ezekiel’s a ...
Oral Tradition in the Writings of Rabbinic Oral Torah
... and mnemonically grounded literary culture of medieval Christian or Muslim scribes, authors, and readers will find a familiar picture among their Rabbinic contemporaries. But our primary concern in this essay is not with the oral life of the medieval Rabbinic codex (although we will touch upon it). ...
... and mnemonically grounded literary culture of medieval Christian or Muslim scribes, authors, and readers will find a familiar picture among their Rabbinic contemporaries. But our primary concern in this essay is not with the oral life of the medieval Rabbinic codex (although we will touch upon it). ...
Yom Kippur - Sept. 23, 2015
... another. Of course, one should not feel limited to confess only the list of sins printed in the siddur, one should mention viduy any specific sins which he or she may have committed. It is customary to gently beat one’s chest during the viduy, as if to say that your heart may have led you astray in ...
... another. Of course, one should not feel limited to confess only the list of sins printed in the siddur, one should mention viduy any specific sins which he or she may have committed. It is customary to gently beat one’s chest during the viduy, as if to say that your heart may have led you astray in ...
Is JUDAISM the RELIGION OF MOSES?
... Nonetheless, even being one of the chief cities of Galilee and having a considerable Jewish population it had ONLY ONE synagogue. (In the New Testament, the definite Greek article is used, which indicates only one synagogue). It would have been virtually impossible to get even 10% of the Jewish popu ...
... Nonetheless, even being one of the chief cities of Galilee and having a considerable Jewish population it had ONLY ONE synagogue. (In the New Testament, the definite Greek article is used, which indicates only one synagogue). It would have been virtually impossible to get even 10% of the Jewish popu ...
Chabad-Lubavitch: The Impact of Menachem Mendel
... If there arise a king from the House of David who meditates on the Torah, occupies himself with the commandments, as did his ancestor David, observes the precepts prescribed in the Written and the Oral Law, prevails upon Israel to walk in the way of the Torah and to repair its breaches, and fights t ...
... If there arise a king from the House of David who meditates on the Torah, occupies himself with the commandments, as did his ancestor David, observes the precepts prescribed in the Written and the Oral Law, prevails upon Israel to walk in the way of the Torah and to repair its breaches, and fights t ...
Hanukkah - Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
... Because Hanukkah and Christmas both may occur in December, they are often associated. Indeed, both holidays may have extremely ancient roots as winter solstice celebrations. However, aside from this ancient pagan connection, the holidays are not connected. They have different religious meanings and ...
... Because Hanukkah and Christmas both may occur in December, they are often associated. Indeed, both holidays may have extremely ancient roots as winter solstice celebrations. However, aside from this ancient pagan connection, the holidays are not connected. They have different religious meanings and ...
Mikve: The New Frontier
... pagan cults, where priest and layman re-enacted mythical scenes, in Judaism, Imitatio Dei took on a new and throughly re ned meaning. Not self-immolation, but continuous contemplation of His ways. Not orgiastic dances, but careful everyday following in God's moral path. The Talmud teaches that the ...
... pagan cults, where priest and layman re-enacted mythical scenes, in Judaism, Imitatio Dei took on a new and throughly re ned meaning. Not self-immolation, but continuous contemplation of His ways. Not orgiastic dances, but careful everyday following in God's moral path. The Talmud teaches that the ...
The Ezekiel Mural at Dura Europos
... uncovered by excavation was a small Jewish synagogue with elaborately painted walls, preserved only because the building had been filled with earth as a fortification during the siege. The purpose of this article is to draw greater attention to the Ezekiel cycle, depicted in an important mural found ...
... uncovered by excavation was a small Jewish synagogue with elaborately painted walls, preserved only because the building had been filled with earth as a fortification during the siege. The purpose of this article is to draw greater attention to the Ezekiel cycle, depicted in an important mural found ...
Document
... Over the past century the imposition of stricter rules for women’s behavior at the Western Wall has corresponded with two different struggles for power: one between Jews and non-Jews in Jerusalem during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period when Arabs and the British successive ...
... Over the past century the imposition of stricter rules for women’s behavior at the Western Wall has corresponded with two different struggles for power: one between Jews and non-Jews in Jerusalem during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period when Arabs and the British successive ...
The Sabbath-Keepers of Transalvania
... the Messiah of the Jews, who would one day literally return, resurrect the dead, gather in the scattered people of Israel and reign and rule on David’s throne from Jerusalem for one thousand years of peace. These beliefs about Messiah were completely foreign to the Christianity of their day. [Their ...
... the Messiah of the Jews, who would one day literally return, resurrect the dead, gather in the scattered people of Israel and reign and rule on David’s throne from Jerusalem for one thousand years of peace. These beliefs about Messiah were completely foreign to the Christianity of their day. [Their ...
The Public Reading of Scripture in Early Judaism
... offer. 6 But when the sources present a picture of diversity, or when no evidence exists for a given practice at a certain time and place, one must avoid simply harmonizing one tradition with another or an earlier time period with a later one. There is particular need to keep these principles in min ...
... offer. 6 But when the sources present a picture of diversity, or when no evidence exists for a given practice at a certain time and place, one must avoid simply harmonizing one tradition with another or an earlier time period with a later one. There is particular need to keep these principles in min ...
Judaism Notes
... Rabbi Powers talked about Jews in community which is a very important concept to the Jewish tradition/faith/culture. There is discussion of the importance of community in ancient and in modern texts. The Jews see themselves as God's people. You are a covenant people and in covenant with each other a ...
... Rabbi Powers talked about Jews in community which is a very important concept to the Jewish tradition/faith/culture. There is discussion of the importance of community in ancient and in modern texts. The Jews see themselves as God's people. You are a covenant people and in covenant with each other a ...
chapter-6-social-studies-curriculum-guide
... 5. covenant - an agreement with God 6. Torah - the laws that Moses received from God on Mount Sinai; later they became a part of the Hebrew Bible 7. commandment - a rule that God wanted the Israelites to follow 8. alphabet - a group of letters that stand for the sounds made when talking 9. psalm - a ...
... 5. covenant - an agreement with God 6. Torah - the laws that Moses received from God on Mount Sinai; later they became a part of the Hebrew Bible 7. commandment - a rule that God wanted the Israelites to follow 8. alphabet - a group of letters that stand for the sounds made when talking 9. psalm - a ...