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Most Common Jewish First Names in Israel
Names, 1991 Samples of men's and women's names drawn from English language editions of Israeli telephone directories identify the most common names in current usage.
Edwin D. Lawson
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Towards redeeming ‘loyalty’ in functionalist Bible translation using the Hebrew ḥesed concept
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 Within translation studies, functionalist translations and even more specifically, translations guided by Skopos theory are very much purposeful activities.
Tobias J. Houston
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Nordisk Judaistik, 2000 The full version of the Bible was first published in Estonian in 1739. In comparison with the neighbouring Protestant countries this is a very late date. However, serious attempts to translate the Bible into Estonian were made already in the 17th century.
Kristiina Ross
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2014 The Old Testament or Hebrew Bible is much loved in Africa. It is however encountered almost exclusively in translation, either through translation into local indigenous languages or translation into foreign, non-local languages.
Aloo O. Mojola
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Beyond Controversy in the Hebrew Bible: Standing Stones as Messengers of Common Humanity
Religions, 2023 The Hebrew Bible is not only an ancient religious text, but also imbues information about the lives of people. Beyond controversial matters in the text, links can be found to common humanity with ancient roots. This renders the text not only relevant for
Elizabeth S. Bloem Viljoen
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Emergence of the Tyndale–King James Version tradition in English Bible translation
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 In this essay, it is demonstrated that the inception of the English Bible tradition began with the oral–aural Bible in Old English translated from Latin incipient texts and emerged through a continuous tradition of revision and retranslation in ...
Jacobus A. Naudé
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Reading the Whole Bible with Integrity: Identifying Context, Identity, Community, and Antisemitism in Christian Hermeneutical Practices [PDF]
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2020 What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and the New Testament, where does Jesus fit in, and why do these questions even matter?
Jayme R Reaves
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