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Pediatric Transplantation, Volume 26, Issue 7, November 2022., 2022 Abstract Background The supply of viable organ donations falls significantly below the demand. Discrepancies concerning the availability of transplants cannot be explained solely by the various consent models used in different countries. There is evidence that religious beliefs of patients, potential donors, and healthcare professionals also play an ...
Katja Doerry +4 more
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A Rabbi of One's Own? Navigating Religious Authority and Ethical Freedom in Everyday Judaism
American Anthropologist, Volume 123, Issue 4, Page 833-845, December 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT This article examines the varying ways religious devotees utilize, negotiate, embrace, and reject religious authorities in their everyday lives. Ethnographically exploring the ways that Orthodox Jews share reproductive decisions with rabbinic authorities, I demonstrate how some sanctify rabbinic rulings, while others dismiss them, or continue ...
Lea Taragin‐Zeller
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Medicalising the Jewish Ritual Bath: Women, Health and Purity in the Late Ottoman Empire
Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 683-700, October 2021., 2021 Abstract Menstrual impurity is among the most important religious practices in Jewish lore. Examining two case studies of Judeo–Spanish Ottoman Jewry: discussions of the temperature of the ritual bath water; and purity, hygiene and the collective of the Jewish body, this article demonstrates that menstrual impurity in Ottoman Judaism underwent an ...
Anabella Esperanza
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Identification of Parallel Passages Across a Large Hebrew/Aramaic Corpus [PDF]
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2018 We propose a method for efficiently finding all parallel passages in a large corpus, even if the passages are not quite identical due to rephrasing and orthographic variation.
Avi Shmidman, Moshe Koppel, Ely Porat
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Explanation and interpretation of three unclear words in Bavli Eruvin 104a-b
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 This article engages in the explanation and interpretation of three unclear words, dyofe, meiarak and kitana, that appear in the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Eruvin 104a–b.
Uri Zur
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Omen and Anti-omen: The Rabbinic Hagiography of the Scapegoat’s Scarlet Ribbon [PDF]
, 2016 This article proposes that the place and meaning of various objects among religious communities can be explored in terms of “hagiography,” that is, through the narratives constructed around sacred objects sometimes long after their physical disappearance.
Balberg, Mira
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Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2022 This article examines the evolution of rabbinic interpretative discourse on the creation of woman, as depicted in the Hebrew Bible, addressing well-known rabbinic writings from the fifth to the tenth centuries.
Katja von Schöneman
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Archaeological explorations at ‘En Qobi in the Jerusalem Highlands and the identification of Qube/Qubi [PDF]
Cercetări Arheologice, 2023 The article presents the results of archaeological excavations and surveys undertaken at and near the spring of ‘En Qobi. ‘En Qobi is a spring in the upper reaches of Nahal Qobi, a tributary of Nahal Refai’m, West of Jerusalem.
Boaz Zissu
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Late Roman Law and the Quranic Punishments for Adultery
, 2022 The Muslim World, Volume 112, Issue 2, Page 207-224, Spring 2022.
Juan Cole
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Kara śmierci w przekazie Talmudu Babilońskiego
Analecta Cracoviensia, 2012 When reading the Babylonian Talmud it has to be noted that it gives a fragmentary account of the capital punishment. However, the Talmud indicates who, for what and in what way should be condemned.
Piotr Łabuda
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