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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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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Stworzenie Adama według midraszu Bereszit rabba. Przekład i komentarz
The Polish Journal of the Arts and CultureMidrash 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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Borderless Boundaries – as Means of Death and Life: Wilderness Portraits in Patristic and Rabbinic Literature [PDF]
, 2015 This study examines the role played by environmental representation of an apparent borderless boundary, the desert, as presented in Scripture – the Hebrew Bible / First Testament.
Maoz, Daniel
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An educational beit midrash as a bridge between religious and secular identity
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThis 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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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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Entangled Stories: The Red Jews in Premodern Yiddish and German Apocalyptic Lore [PDF]
, 2012 “Far, far away from our areas, somewhere beyond the Mountains of Darkness, on the other side of the Sambatyon River…there lives a nation known as the Red Jews.” The Red Jews are best known from classic Yiddish writing, most notably from Mendele's Kitser ...
Abramovitsh +187 more
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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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"The Myth of the Cave" in the Space and Time of the Exegetical Midrash [PDF]
HypothekaiThe 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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Menorah Review (No. 39, Winter, 1997) [PDF]
, 1997 An Interpretive Methodology With Supersessionist Forebodings -- Through a Glass Brightly: Seeing the Unseeable -- The 12th Annual Selma and Jacob Brown Lecture -- Controversy and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Book Listing -- Jewish Civics -- Leah -- Book ...
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