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Judaism, Philo, and Hegel's Theology
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Hegel displays consistent interest in Judaism, but his presentation seems to differ widely between his earlier and later writings. Contemporary scholarly interpretations of this apparent change also differ widely. In this article, I present the interpretive problem as one of continuity‐discontinuity, and place the major scholarly treatments ...
Reed Frey, C.O.
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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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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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Freedom in Judaism : the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature [PDF]
, 2015 昨今の宗教が絡む政治的紛争での「自由」論争を鑑み、一神教世界のルーツにあるヘブライ語聖書とその後のラビ・ユダヤ教文献における「自由」の概念の変遷を、自由を表すHR, HPhShを語根とする派生語の語感の変遷からたどる。ヘブライ語聖書においては両者ともに主として社会的階級を表す用語であった。ラビ・ユダヤ教文献においてherutという抽象概念が生まれ、出32.16での言葉遊びを契機に、トーラーの学びに拘束される「自由」観の萌芽がみられ、さらにその伝承が後代のミドラッシュ・アガダーの発展していく。「自由 ...
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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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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The Memory of the Temple in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature
, 2017 This dissertation concerns the memory of the Jerusalem Temple in rabbinic literature, arguing that different groups of rabbis continued to remember and recall the Temple after its destruction in 70 CE for a series of changing memorial purposes.
Schumer, Nathan S.
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Fan fiction and ancient scribal cultures
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2019 Editorial for guest-edited issue, “Fan Fiction and Ancient Scribal Cultures,” Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 31 (December 15, 2019).
Frauke Uhlenbruch, Sonja Ammann
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