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Reincarnation

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
Reincarnation (metempsychosis, transmigration, referring to the same Hebrew concepts ha’atakah, gilgul) is a belief that has been historically present in Jewish culture since at least the tenth century, with written kabbalistic traditions circulating ...
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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The Matthean community within a Jewish religious society

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
It is argued that the Matthean Gospel partially reflects the unstable political and religious situation in which this document originated. Broad outlines are postulated of this probable religious situation.
Francois Viljoen
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The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Soviet Jewry Collection, undated, 1965, 1967, 1970-1971, 1977-1978, 1981

, 1965
The collection reflects the involvement in the American Soviet Jewry movement of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), the primary organization of synagogues practicing Conservative Judaism in North America. The materials include a booklet
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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"Entre octroi de la citoyenneté et adoption : les modèles pour penser la conversion au judaïsme à l'époque romaine"

, 2017
International audienceThis article explores the conceptual models that underlie the ways conversion to Judaism was thought of during the Roman period. In the works of Philo of Alexandria, the prevailing model is that of proselytes as new citizens in the ...
Berthelot, Katell, Katell Berthelot
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Stranger – Ger

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
The commandment to protect the ger, often translated as stranger, is asserted several times in the Torah. The book of Exodus requires the Israelites ‘not to do wrong to a ger or oppress them’ (22:21).
Armin Langer
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Judaism in the first century [Introduction to New Testament history and literature]

, 2011
Educação Superior::Ciências Humanas::TeologiaPresents a course about the New Testament history and literature, with the professor of Religious Studies at Yale, Dale B. Martin.
Martin, Dale B.
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Teshuva

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
This encyclopaedia article aims to provide an exhaustive investigation of the concept of Teshuva in Jewish thought, with a focus on its historical trajectory and multifaceted interpretations.
Ghila Amati, Miri Freud-Kandel
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Why Liberalism Might Last

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Can Liberalism Last?’ Anomaly and Faria (2023) argue that liberal societies tend to undermine their own long‐term survival, chiefly by fostering conditions—urbanization, mass migration from culturally distant regions and sub‐replacement fertility—that erode social trust and grant a demographic advantage to illiberal groups, whereas ...
Bouke de Vries, Maarten Boudry
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