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Hesed in Ruth: A Frail Moral Tool in an Inflexible Social Structure

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Scholars have paid much attention to the attribute of hesed in the book of Ruth, pinpointing it as a pivotal feature and the main message of the book. However, the protagonists in the tale do not seem to exhibit hesed out of free will or as part of their
Gili Kugler, Ohad Magori
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Jewish students in Strzygowski’s Vienna Institute and the study of Jewish art: a forgotten chapter in the history of the Vienna School [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2023
Josef Strzygowski, inscribed in the annals of art history as a racialist and an anti-semite, had many devoted Jewish students. Strzygowski cast a long shadow over many of the earliest specimens of Jewish art history in Vienna.
Michael Young
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From Scripturalism to the ‘Chain of Tradition’: Between Rabbanite and Karaite Judaism

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This article focuses on the controversy and theological polemics advanced by the Jewish-Karaite movement against one of the central concepts of mainstream Rabbinic Judaism—the Oral Torah and the legitimacy of its transmission (“Chain of Tradition”). This
Golda Akhiezer
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The Tabernacle as a Sacred Feminine Space: The Development of Mythical Images from Biblical Literature to Medieval Kabbalah

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This article compares two biblical accounts: the description of the construction of the Tabernacle (Ex. 25–40), and its connection to the myth of Eve’s creation (Gen. 2).
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
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The Genesis of Jewish Genealogy

open access: yesGenealogy, 2023
This paper examines the structure, message, and content of biblical genealogies in light of literary analysis and social anthropology. In particular, the focus is on the so-called “Table of Nations” in Genesis 10.
Aaron Demsky
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On the Caesura in Dance: Reading Black Waters as history at a standstill

open access: yesPerformance Philosophy, 2022
The art of dance, as a practice expressed in the body language of the dancer, addresses our bodily existence by resembling it. It has the narrative power to make us, as audiences who inhabit bodies ourselves, rediscover the body as a condition of being ...
Santhia Velasco Kittlaus
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Justice at the House of Yhw(h): An Early Yahwistic Defixio in Furem

open access: yesReligions, 2023
What was the nature of ritual in ancient Yahwism? Although biblical sources provide some information about various types of cultic activity, we have thus far lacked any extra-biblical ritual texts from Yahwistic circles prior to Greco–Roman times.
Gad Barnea
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Back from Shingly: revisiting the premodern history of Jews in Kerala [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Jewish history in Kerala is based on sources mainly from the colonial period onward and mostly in European languages, failing to account for the premodern history of Jews in Kerala. These early modern sources are based on oral traditions of Paradeśi Jews
Gamliel, Ophira
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Critical Recognition of Women's Literature in Hungary: Reception of the 'Kitakart Psyché' Series, 2005-2011

open access: yesHungarian Cultural Studies, 2011
With the appearance in 2005 of Éjszakai állatkert. Antológia a női szexualitásról (Night Zoo. An Anthology of Women's Sexuality), the first volume of the Kitakart Psyché (Uncovered Psyche) anthology series, women's literature finally started to generate ...
Rachel Miller
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ROSE EDUCATIONAL PROJECT. CASE STUDY: RED ROSE (2019-2022)

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2022
On April 17, 2015, the Government of Romania and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) signed the Loan Agreement No 8481-RO on the implementation of the Romania Secondary Education Project (ROSE), in Washington.
Nicoleta CHICINAȘ
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