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Christian Origins in Jewish Tradition

New Testament Studies, 1967
Scholars who set out to clarify a particular issue can proceed along one of two different lines: either they can scrutinize the existing sources critically or they can compass land and sea to discover new sources. As the former procedure is the established one so far as Christian origins are concerned and as it is indeed advisable since the New ...
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Jewish Women and Christian Origins

1999
Abstract If writing women’s lives is never simple, to write about Jewish women’s lives during the years and in the regions where Christianity first emerged is fraught with distinctive perils. In recent years, Christian scholars (especially, though by no means exclusively, some feminist Christian scholars) have had considerable ...
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The Origins of Jewish Mysticism (review)

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2011
The Origins of Jewish Mysticism, by Peter Schafer. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. 398 pp. euro99.00. The Mishnah (Hagigah 2:1) identified a number of topics in the rabbinic curriculum that could not be taught openly, among which the most secret was "the work of the chariot," the Ma'aseh Merkavah. It is clear that this esoteric discipline revolves around
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Origins of the Jewish Labor Movement

2017
In 1917, the AFL endorsed the British government’s Balfour Declaration, which called for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. This marked the first time that the American labor movement engaged with the issue of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. However, most Jewish trade unionists, centered in the garment industry, did not support the AFL’s endorsement of ...
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7 Origins of Jewishness and Community

2014
This chapter focuses on Jewish variables in particular, i.e. the correlations with specific Jewish legacies, the origins of Jewishness and belongingness to different communities. The notion of eda (plural edot) congregation in Hebrew generally refers in Jewish sociology to the specific cultural origin of respondents' Jewishness.
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The Origins of Jewish Mysticism

Peter Schäfer provides the reader for the first time with a history of pre-kabbalistic Jewish mysticism. He offers a close reading of the key texts and asks what they wish to convey about the age-old human desire to get close to and communicate with God. The book is directed at specialists as well as at a broader audience.
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The Urban Origins of Jewish Degeneration

2018
This chapter examines the relationship between Jews and the modern city, and more specifically how urban life contributed to Jewish degeneration, by drawing on the arguments advanced by Yuri Slezkine in his book The Jewish Century. While some scholars praised The Jewish Century, others were critical of Slezkine’s work.
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The “Book of the Secrets of Enoch” (2 En): Between Jewish Origin and Christian Transmission. An Overview

, 2012
Christfried Böttrich
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Revised analysis of amino acid replacement in a prealbumin variant (SKO-III) associated with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy of Jewish origin.

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - BBRC, 1984
M. Nakazato, K. Kangawa, N. Minamino, S. Tawara, H. Matsuo, Shukuro Araki   +5 more
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Short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase gene mutation (c.319C>T) presents with clinical heterogeneity and is candidate founder mutation in individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish origin.

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 2008
I. Tein, O. Elpeleg, B. Ben-Zeev, S. Korman, A. Lossos, D. Lev, T. Lerman-Sagie, E. Leshinsky‐Silver, J. Vockley, G. Berry, A. Lamhonwah, D. Matern, C. Roe, N. Gregersen   +13 more
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