The Matthean Jesus’ surprising instruction to obey the teachers of the Law and Pharisees
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 Jesus’ instruction to the crowds in Matthew 23:3 to obey and do everything the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees tell them comes as a surprise. It is the only case in Matthew where the words of the Jewish leaders are seemingly portrayed in a positive
Francois P. Viljoen
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Untranslating Maḥloqet: Halakhic Pluralism and Halakhic Censure
ReligionsThis article offers a conceptual and historical analysis of the rabbinic term maḥloqet, arguing that it functions not merely as a descriptor of disagreement but as a culturally embedded legal category with shifting meanings and purposes across rabbinic ...
Noam Hoffmann
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Repentance and the Reversal of Time: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Temporal Philosophy
ReligionsThis article discusses the dominant understanding of the concept of repentance in the thought of the Jewish philosopher Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and the original interpretation he offers of this religious idea.
Roni Bar Lev +2 more
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The Role of Religious Norms in the Formation of Legal Systems: The Theological Foundations of Law in Different World Religions [PDF]
Pharos Journal of TheologyThis study examines the impact of religious norms on the development of legal systems, concentrating on the theological foundations of law in major world religions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
Andrejs Vilks +2 more
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Between Faith and Capital: A Theological Review of the Banking System and Interests in the Abrahamic Religions [PDF]
Pharos Journal of TheologyThis article comparatively analyzes the conception of interest on loans within the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, from a theological, ethical, and financial perspective.
Orlando Carmelo Castellanos Polo +2 more
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 344-353, September 2026.ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
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Abrahamic Solidarity: Tzedakah, Christian Charity, and Zakat as Theological Accounting Frameworks for Socioeconomic Justice Ethical Governance [PDF]
Pharos Journal of TheologyThis article comparatively examines the theological, ethical, and accounting foundations of three cardinal practices of solidarity within the Abrahamic religions: Tzedakah in Judaism, Charity in Christianity, and Zakat in Islam, to analyze their role in ...
Orlando Carmelo Castellanos Polo +3 more
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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens
Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 190-199, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 427-438, June 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
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Les prémices de la littérature hébraïque moderne en Irak et son passage en Israël
Yod, 2009 This article discusses over two hundred fifty years of modern Iraqi Hebrew literature, poetry, prose, and newspapers, as well as the dissemination of the language in Iraq via heder and Talmud-Torah classes.
Lev Hakak
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