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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Vatican II's declaration on the Jews, absolving them from collective guilt of deicide, marked a significant turning point in Catholic theology. Arab governments tended to perceive this development as evidence that Catholics (or Christians generally) were taking the side of Zionist Jews in the Arab‐Israeli conflict.
Amir Krispel
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From Between to Before: Unslatables in Rabbinic Thought Between Philosophy and Literature
ReligionsThis Special Issue seeks to explore the space between philosophy and literature, taking rabbinic thought as a site where these domains intersect, diverge, and mutually illuminate one another [...]
Sergey Dolgopolski
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Fra bibelske til rabbinske opfattelser af askese: Jødedommens verdensbekræftende praksis
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2016 The purpose of this article is to supplement scholarly positions that define asceticism either as a matter of world renouncement and elitist self-exclusion from the world or as always oriented toward transcendent goals or practices of improvement because
Marianne Schleicher
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Weaning Away from Idolatry: Maimonides on the Purpose of Ritual Sacrifices
Religions, 2021 This essay explores Maimonides’ explanation of the Bible’s rationale behind the ritual sacrifices, namely to help wean the Jews away from idolatrous rites.
Reuven Chaim Klein
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Paul of Tarsus and the gəzêrāh šāwāh: from rabbinic exegesis to citation strategy
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico MilaneseThe paper addresses the relation between the gəzêrāh šāwāh, which is an analogy-based argumentative strategy typical of rabbinic exegesis, and so-called combined citations, that is, combinations of disparate Old Testament passages into a single ...
Edoardo Nardi
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Changing the Subject: Rabbinic Legal Process in the Absence of Justification [PDF]
, 2015 This essay explores how changing the subject can function as a valid legal process in classical rabbinic literature. In order to do so, it first establishes standard rabbinic legal procedure, in which the legal reasoning for arguments is debated and ...
Jordan Rosenblum
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
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Menorah Review (No. 58, Spring/Summer, 2003) [PDF]
, 2003 The Quest for the Historical Rabbi / Peter J. Haas -- Giants Are Still Human / Kristin Swenson -- The Feminist Corner and the Reference Shelf / Sarah Barbara Watstein -- The Core of Jewish Tradition / Dan Miron -- On Early Synagogues / Matthew Schwartz
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