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Religion and Attitudes Toward Xenotransplantation: Results of a Nationwide Survey in the United States. [PDF]
XenotransplantationABSTRACT Religious viewpoints have been shown to influence the ways in which many persons approach medical decision‐making and have been noted as a potential barrier to xenotransplantation acceptance. This study sought to explore how attitudes toward xenotransplantation differ among various religious beliefs.
Hurst DJ +4 more
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Halakha and Morality: A Few Methodological Considerations [PDF]
, 2023 This paper argues that the current discussion on the relationship between morality and halakha tends to confuse philosophical, historical, ideological and jurisprudential issues.
Statman, Daniel
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Election, Favoritism, and Freedom: Towards a Modern Jewish Theology of Matrilineal Descent
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 775-795, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article offers an account of the broad theological contours of the Jewish practice of matrilineal descent. I make the case that matrilineality epitomizes God's contingent preference in favoring and electing Israel. I link Mara Benjamin's recent work to recuperate asymmetrical power relations for feminist theology to the asymmetrical ...
Judah Isseroff
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 714-748, September 2023., 2023 The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
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Pragmatism and Theology: Between Hasdai Crescas and Charles Peirce
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 232-254, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The noted Jewish scholar Harry Wolfson (d. 1929) claimed in youthful writings that the fifteenth‐century rabbinic thinker and physicist, Hasdai Crescas, was a pragmatist. This essay introduces evidence that there are, indeed, significant analogies between elements of Hasdai Crescas’s critique of Aristotle and elements of Charles Peirce’s ...
Peter Ochs
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The beginning of human life : status of embryo. Perspectives in Halakha (Jewish Religious Law). [PDF]
J Assist Reprod Genet, 2008 The Jewish religion is characterized by a strict association between faith and practical precept. Jewish law has two sections, the written and the oral tradition. The foundation of the written law and the origin of authority is the Torah, the first five books of the Scripture. It is an expression of God's revelation, teaching and guiding humanity.
Schenker JG.
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Child &Family Social Work, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 725-736, November 2022., 2022 Abstract The term ‘sibling sexual dynamics’ (SSD) describes (in this study) a continuum of childhood sexual behaviours that are inconsistent with age‐appropriate curiosity and can include abuse (SSA). The present qualitative study, based on 20 semi‐structured interviews, conducts an analysis via constructivist grounded theory on the perspectives of ...
Amitai Marmor +3 more
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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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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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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 The current study deals with the responsum of R. Shimon ben Zemah Duran (Rashbatz, Algeria, 15th century), a Jewish halakhic adjudicator, on the trade in monkeys practiced by Algerian Jews in the middle ages.
Abraham O. Shemesh
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