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Secularization and its ethical consequences: orthodox Israeli Jews sanctifying ‘mundane’ Buddhist meditation

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 1270-1289, December 2022., 2022
Abstract ‘Insight’ or vipassanā meditation refers to meditative practices employed within Buddhist traditions. But following the secularization of vipassanā in recent decades – that is, its differentiation from Buddhism – orthodox Jewish Israeli meditators frame it as a religiously neutral, therapeutic technique centred on the mundane human body.
Ori Mautner
wiley   +1 more source

Modern midrash: Jewish identity and literary creativity.

open access: yes, 2005
After the canonization of the Hebrew Bible in the first century CE, Jewish creativity turned to interpretation; one style was rabbinic midrash . As modern dislocations created disconnections with Jewish tradition a literature called modern midrash ...
Chalom, Adam N.
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Jewish Theology and its Sources: A Review Essay

open access: yes, 2023
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 327-331, April 2023.
Devorah Schoenfeld
wiley   +1 more source

Il Midrash della stanchezza [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The article tries to approach the problem of Kafka’s Judaism by reading the Philosophical Fragment (March 1906) as a short, ironical midrash haggadah, that the young writer would have fast unconsciously composed while he was glossing some of Brod’s ...
de Conciliis, Eleonora
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MIDRASH ED HERMENEUTICA BÍBLICA - L'ESEMPIO DELLA "COSTRUZIONE" DELLA FIGURA DEL MESSIA NEI VANGELI DELL'INFANZIA DI MATTEO E LUCA'

open access: yesCaminhos, 2015
Resumo: o midrash é o método típico de ler a bíblia dos hebreus. O seu fundamento é a visão cíclica da história, onde o acontecimento central, a presença de Deus na história, é continuamente atualizado oferecendo sempre novos significados às várias ...
Luigi Shiavo
doaj   +1 more source

Talking about God in feminine

open access: yesFeminismo/s, 2012
This article ventures into the possibility of a feminine discourse about God, based on the study of the classical sources, which are not widely known in Spanish.
Ethel Katz de Barylka
doaj   +1 more source

‘And God gave Solomon wisdom’: Proficiency in ornithomancy

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
The biblical text accords a great deal of attention to King Solomon’s personal abilities and governmental power. Solomon was described as a judge, poet, constructor and the wisest of all people in the Ancient Near East and Egypt.
Abraham O. Shemesh
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Midrash in the New Testament: John vs. Synoptikoi [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2017
This paper deals with prefaces to the gospels of Matthew, Luke and John. From the point of view of their genre, the fi rst two are the midrash, i.e. an interpretation based on written sources and the oral tradition of Judaism.
Alexeev Anatoly
doaj   +1 more source

A Nameless Bride of Death: Jephthah’s Daughter in American Jewish Women’s Poetry

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2020
In the Hebrew Bible, Jephthah’s daughter has neither name nor heir. The biblical account (Judg. 11:30–40) is somber—a daughter due to be sacrificed because of her father’s rash vow. The theme has inspired numerous midrashim and over five hundred artistic
Koplowitz-Breier Anat
doaj   +1 more source

Tibåt Mårqe: A New Edition with English Translation

open access: yesReligions, 2020
This contribution presents a short introduction to the new edition of Tibåt Mårqe. The oldest manuscript of Tibåt Mårqe dates from the 14th century but only fragments of it are preserved.
Abraham Tal
doaj   +1 more source

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