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The magic of the Mezuzah in rabbinic literature
Nordisk Judaistik, 1994 The notion that the mezuzah – the capsule containing a parchment strip on which is written Deut 6:4-9 and 11:13-21 and which is attached to the doorposts of a Jewish home – is protective has been explained in different ways.
Eva-Maria Jansson
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Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature [PDF]
, 2014 Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles explores the different attitudes toward the ...
Heger, P.
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Rabbinic Geography: Between the Imaginary and Real [PDF]
, 2023 This article discusses rabbinic perceptions of space and geography, showing how geographical information in rabbinic writings reflects the “local color” of these writings or rabbinic perceptions of the Land of Israel or other regions.
Hezser, Catherine
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The Synoptic Problem in Rabbinic Literature [PDF]
, 2020 This volume contains six essays that address the ""synoptic problem"" in the study of rabbinic literature. As a whole, they argue for the utility of recognizing that rabbinic documents are as much collections of traditions as they are well-crafted ...
Cohen, Shaye J.D.
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The Anti-Samaritan Attitude as Reflected in Rabbinic Midrashim
Religions, 2021 Samaritans, as a group within the ranges of ancient ‘Judaisms’, are often mentioned in Talmud and Midrash. As comparable social–religious entities, they are regarded ambivalently by the rabbis.
Andreas Lehnardt
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A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale [PDF]
, 2014 A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale provides the first detailed linguistic analysis of the Hebrew narrative literature composed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe by followers of the Hasidic spiritual ...
L. Kahn, Kahn, LO, Kahn, Lily, Kahn, L.
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, 2021 Palestinian rabbinic literature mostly transmits traditions about interactions among rabbis and rabbis and their students. Nevertheless, in some social contexts rabbis are said to have met laypeople: rabbis were invited by wealthy householders; they ...
Hezser, Catherine
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Religions, 2021 The present article sets out to answer the question of the extent to which Naḥman Krochmal’s reappraisal of Philo of Alexandria in the light of his Jewish faith reflects a deep spiritual crisis that was engulfing the Maskilic world: the encroaching ...
Ze’ev Strauss
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Early Religious Zionism and Erudition Concerning the Temple and Sacrifices
Religions, 2022 Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalisher’s messianic innovations asserted the centrality of a renewal of offerings on the altar to the creation of a linear path to redemption. Despite the common convention, his ideas were not disregarded by his peers and followers.
Isaac Hershkowitz
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Rabbinic Body Language: Non-Verbal Communication in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity [PDF]
, 2017 This study constitutes the first comprehensive examination of rabbinic body language represented in Palestinian rabbinic sources of late antiquity.
Hezser, Catherine
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