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Monotheism and the Language of Divine Plurality in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Tyndale Bulletin, 2014
Most Hebrew Bible scholars believe that Israelite religion evolved from polytheism to monotheism, an evolution in which the biblical writers participated.
Michael S. Heiser
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Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This paper explores the embodied experience of 25 women who are former cult members. By delving into the stories of three protagonists, we examine how these women engaged with and possibly redefined the cult's socially constructed notion of womanhood.
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Michal Morag
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Beyond monotheism? Some remarks and questions on conceptualising �monotheism� in Biblical Studies

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2013
In the first part of this article I outline serious objections against the concept of monotheism. I will ask whether the ambiguity and the problem discredit the concept of monotheism as inappropriate for Biblical Studies, or whether it calls for ...
Christian Frevel
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Legalists, Visionaries, and New Names: Sectarianism and the Search for Apocalyptic Origins in Isaiah 56–66

, 2010
This essay re-examines the difficult questions concerning the origins of apocalyptic literature and the rise of Jewish sectarianism. Since the publication of O. Plöger’s Theokratie und Eschatologie and P.
Doak, Brian R.
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Israel's violation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination with regard to asylum seekers and refugees in Israel [PDF]

, 2012
This report is in response to the 14th, 15th and 16th periodic reports of the State of Israel to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).This report demonstrates that Israel continues to ignore its international obligations ...

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A Kingdom of Priests and Its Earthen Altars in Exodus 19–24 [PDF]

, 2015
Argues that, reversing the trope of subjects visiting the magnificent, the Elohistic history has Yahweh interested in the simplest, flimsiest altars only, which he will visit when and where he is invited to do so.
simeon chavel
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Denkbeelde oor God by Hosea

Verbum et Ecclesia, 1997
Conceptions of God in Hosea The book Hosea could be characterised as a polemic against particular traits of Israelite religion. According to the book s message Yahweh was deeply involved in Israel's everyday existence.
W. S. Boshoff
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Women's sense of their hak, divine justice, and economies of divorce in Istanbul Sens du hak des femmes, justice divine et économies du divorce à Istanbul

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Building on life story interviews with Muslim women – divorced and living in Istanbul – this article traces women's evocations of hak (haqq, , right) and other related terms in their narratives about financial arrangements during divorce proceedings. Mainly denoting right, justice, truth and due, the polysemic notion of hak encompasses a complex set of
Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu
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New Evidence for Asherata/Asherah

Religions
This paper examines the appearance of published West Semitic spellings of the name of the deity commonly referred to as Asherah. In light of new evidence from the Bronze Age Amorite sources, as well as the complete publication of the inscriptions at ...
Richard S. Hess
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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