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Varieties of Religious Visualizations
Studia Humana, 2014 In this paper, I describe several distinct visualizations that I recognize in Jewish prayers. By the term prayers, I mean the texts recited by Jews in religious ritual contexts.
Zahavy Tzvee
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History, EarlyView.Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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R. Shmuel Mohiliver and R. Yitzhak Yaakov Reines: Two Types of Religious Zionism
ReligionsA typology presents ideal concrete types, and probing their personality and character enables the creation of general patterns. The study of the personality thus grants access to the depth of an idea not only in abstract terms but also in its function as
Dov Schwartz
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Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 1987 Two of Judaism's greatest philosophers were Philo of Alexandria (c. 20BCE-50CE) and Saadia ben Joseph (882-942). As the first, who in fluenced the development of Christian dogma, is the only Jewish Hellenistic philosopher from whom a body of work has ...
Stephen M. Finn
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Mishpat Ivri, Halakhah and Legal Philosophy: Agunah and the Theory of “Legal Sources" [PDF]
, 2001 In this paper, I ask whether mishpat ivri (Jewish Law) is appropriately conceived as a “legal system”. I review Menachem Elon’s use of a “Sources” Theory of Law (based on Salmond) in his account of Mishpat Ivri; the status of religious law from the ...
Jackson, Bernard S.
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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Ethical Passivity between Maximal and Minimal Meanings [PDF]
, 2016 This paper is a critical review of the most relevant studies about the Levinasian concept of passivity. The purpose is to follow the way in which Levinas’s scholars have dealt with the following aspects: the relation between ethical passivity and the ...
Losada-Sierra, Manuel
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Not Just Half a Doctor: Promoting Humanism During Stressful Times
Annals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.
Nigel S. Bamford +7 more
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South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
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Thich Nhat Hanh’s Naturalism and Nondualism in a Trans-Different Perspective
ReligionsThe purpose of this study is to describe Thich Nhat Hanh’s naturalism and nondualism and to situate his views in a “trans-different” perspective. I ask whether his thoughts are compatible with other worldviews that work with the notion of justice.
Ephraim Meir
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