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Theorizing Jewish Ethics

Studia Humana, 2014
The concept of Jewish ethics is elusive. Law occupies a prominent place in the phenomenology of traditional Judaism. What room is left for ethics? This paper argues that the dichotomy between law and ethics, with regard to Judaism, is misleading.
Mittleman Alan
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Menorah Review (No. 20, Fall, 1990) [PDF]

, 1990
Abba Hillel Silver, The Holocaust and American Politics: 1943-1944 -- Different Jews - One Judaism -- Book Briefing -- Rescuing Jews During the Holocaust -- Balancing -- Text and Context: The Case of American Judaism -- Book ...

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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Menorah Review (No. 16, Spring, 1989) [PDF]

, 1989
Jewish Renewal -- Israel and the Modern Jew -- Looking for God in Conservative Judaism -- The Meaning of Midrash -- Book ...

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Is there a theology of rabbinic Judaism?

Nordisk Judaistik, 1995
What is at stake in the problem of theology? It is whether or not, out of a given body of authoritative writings, we may appeal to that –ism, that “Judaism”, that all of us assume forms the matrix for all the documents all together.
Jacob Neusner
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John Henry Newman’s Anglican Views on Judaism [PDF]

, 2010
The scant scholarship associated with Newman’s Anglican views about Judaism has focused on his negative rhetoric against Judaism and portrayed him as anti-Semitic.
Aguzzi, Steven D.
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Christian relations with Judaism and Jewish people: theory and practice

Nordisk Judaistik, 1998
The stipulation of terms, that are topics of vital importance to Judaism, is gathered around 4 subjects: 1) Scripture and tradition, 2) the idea of God, 3) the idea of man, and 4) the conception of salvation.
Karin Weinholt
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The Great Misread: Life and Death in Islam and Its Relation to the West [PDF]

, 2017
Details of death in the Islamic faith and how it is related to the two major monotheistic religions of the West, Judaism and ...
Zak, John M.
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