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Jewish Education (Chapter 26 of The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts) [PDF]

, 2013
The nature of Jewish education in the first century has clear relevance for a number of issues in NT interpretation. How did Jesus learn Torah—at home, at school? Could he even read and write? Were his disciples illiterates?
Yinger, Kent
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Stworzenie Adama według midraszu Bereszit rabba. Przekład i komentarz

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture
Midrash Ber. Rab. 8 offers a survey of the most prominent rabbinic interpretations of the biblical narrative of the creation of man (Gen 1–2).
Wojciech Kosior
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Restoring RLUIPAs Equal Terms Provision [PDF]

, 2009
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act\u27s (RLUIPA) equal terms provision prohibits government from implementing a land-use regulation in a manner that treats religious assemblies and institutions less favorably than secular assemblies
Campbell, Sarah Keeton
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An educational beit midrash as a bridge between religious and secular identity

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This qualitative-phenomenological study presents the contribution of the educational beit midrash, a setting that is centered on a multidimensional engagement with Jewish and modern Hebrew texts.
Galia Semo, Doly Eliyahu-Levi
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The Tabernacle as a Sacred Feminine Space: The Development of Mythical Images from Biblical Literature to Medieval Kabbalah

Religions, 2023
This article compares two biblical accounts: the description of the construction of the Tabernacle (Ex. 25–40), and its connection to the myth of Eve’s creation (Gen. 2).
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
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"The Myth of the Cave" in the Space and Time of the Exegetical Midrash [PDF]

Hypothekai
The article explores the interpretation of Plato’s Myth of the Cave within the context of the Jewish religious tradition. The author analyzes this philosophical text—one of the key constants of European cultural tradition for over two millennia—through ...
Alexander G. BERMUS
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David Patterson, Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) [PDF]

, 2017
This is a critical review of David Patterson's book Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins (2015). In this review, I present the author's new explanation of the roots of anti-Semitism, which he finds in the anti-Semite's desire to become like God ...
Tremblay, Frederic
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THREE COMPARATIVE MAPS OF THE HUMAN

Zygon, 1996
. This article is a response to the 1994 Star Island conference on the “Decade of the Brain” from a Jewish perspective. After a brief introduction about the logical function of models and maps, I compare and contrast three models of the human: Ezekiel's
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Déjà Vu: Shirley Kaufman’s Poetry on Biblical Women

Religions, 2019
This article explores Shirley Kaufman’s reading of the Bible as an elaboration on/of its feminine characters via three devices: (a) Dramatic monologues, in which the woman speaks for herself (“Rebecca” and “Leah”); (b ...
Anat Koplowitz-Breier
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Ritual Studies and the Study of Rabbinic Literature [PDF]

, 2017
In the last two decades several important studies have been published that focus on ritual in rabbinic literature, and consider ritual to be a critically important conceptual and analytical category in approaching rabbinic texts and rabbinic culture ...
Balberg, Mira
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