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Not Judging by Appearances: The Role of Genotype in Jewish Law on Intersex Conditions [PDF]
, 2012 Jewish communities have always had children with intersex conditions, which involve atypical anatomic, chromosomal, or gonadal sex. In the last several decades, Orthodox rabbis have issued ad hoc rulings to assign sex to children and adults with intersex
Hillel Gray
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The attemped murder by Laban the Aramean: an example of intertextual reading in Midrash
Nordisk Judaistik, 2003 This article deals with the question of why Laban the Aramean, a rather harmless character as presented in the biblical text, is generally portrayed in rabbinic literature as a major enemy of Israel.
Karin Hedner-Zetterholm
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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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The Transitioning of Jewish Biomedical Law: Rhetorical and Practical Shifts in Halakhic Discourse on Sex-Change Surgery [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines discourse dynamics in Jewish law on sex-change surgery (SCS) and, in general, transitioning between genders. Orthodox medical ethics has moved beyond the abstract condemnation of SCS to the design of practical rules for transsexuals
Hillel Gray
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The conceptualisation of morality in Judaism
Verbum et EcclesiaThis article dealt with the irony that confronts any investigation into the conceptualisation of morality in Judaism: much of contemporary scholarship promotes the Strong Dependence Theory where God is considered the prime source of morality − yet an ...
Gavin Michal
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Two Perceptions of Change in Judeo-Spanish Rabbinic Literature
Sefarad : Revista de Estudios Hebraicos y Sefardíes, 2000 En este artículo analizo las referencias a la introducción del telégrafo en dos libros de musar del siglo XIX publicados en ladino: el Pele Yo 'éŝ, cuyo versión judeoespañola preparó Yeudá Papo, y el Séfer Ki źe kol haadam, de Ben-Ŝiyón Binyamín Rodeti ...
Matthias B. Lehmann
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Hermeneutic Strategy of Rabbinic Literature
ReligionsThis work is devoted to the development of dialogical hermeneutics. As a special field of research, hermeneutics was formed as a result of the efforts of Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer.
Ilya Dvorkin
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Gen 4 : 7 in the Targums and rabbinic literature
Analecta Cracoviensia, 1984 —
Stanisław Mędala
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Green Is the New Gold: Redefining Opulent Lifestyle Through Organic Food Purchases
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior studies based on the Theory of Planned Behavior mostly examined the effects of health and environmental concerns on organic food consumption; however, few addressed the paradoxical relationships in the context of opulent or symbolic decorum.
Neha Sharma +3 more
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EMBODIED COGNITION IN CLASSICAL RABBINIC LITERATURE
Zygon, 2013 Challenging earlier cognitivist approaches, recent theories of embodied cognition argue that the human mind and its functions are best understood as intimately bound up with the human body and its physiological dimensions.
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