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Jewish Monotheism And Christian Origins

Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 2008
The rise of the Christ movement within first-century Judaism is regarded by many as having caused an immediate rift between 'Jews' and 'Christians'. This chapter examines the theological framework in which the cultic veneration of Jesus as a divine figure originated.
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Pro-Jewish Intimations in Tacitus' Account of Jewish Origins

Revue des Études Juives, 1991
Feldman Louis H. Pro-Jewish Intimations in Tacitus' Account of Jewish Origins. In: Revue des études juives, tome 150, n°3-4, juillet-décembre 1991. pp. 331-360.
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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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Hypodontia: Prevalence amongst Jewish populations of different origin

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1973
AbstractThe teeth of 10,371 male and 11,013 female Israel Jews were examined. Prevalence of all hypodontia was 4.60% with no significant difference between the sexes; 2.11% lacked upper lateral incisors, the females having a significantly higher prevalence than males.
E, Eidelman, A, Chosack, K A, Rosenzweig
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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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The Jewish Origin of Julius Africanus

Journal of Jewish Studies, 1994
Jules l'Africain est connu pour la lettre qu'il recut d'Origene, «Epistula ad Africanum». Quelques fragments de son œuvre ont survecu comme la lettre a laquelle Origene repondit, ainsi que ses Keστοι («Cestes»). La theorie de l'origine juive de Jules l'Africain developpee par J.-R.
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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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