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The Pagan King before the One God

Classica Cracoviensia, 2012
The paper is an analysis of the scene in Ant. XI, 8: the supposed meeting between Alexander the Great and the Jewish High Priest, revealing Alexander’s special status as a chosen of God. The analysis concentrates on two issues: the literary character of
Aleksandra Klęczar
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Menorah Review (No. 62, Winter/Spring, 2005) [PDF]

, 2005
Tales to Engage -- The Study of The Holocaust And Its Discontents -- Jews Courageous -- Thinking Heart of A Concentration Camp: The Spiritual Journey of A Young Woman in Holland Under Nazi Occupation -- Great Russian-Jewish Historians -- Children\u27s ...

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From Their Bread to Their Bed: Commensality, Intermarriage, and Idolatry in Tannaitic Literature [PDF]

, 2017
In the tannaitic corpus, a novel innovation appears: sharing bread is understood to lead to sharing a bed. As such, the Tannaim problematise and marginalise commensal interactions between Jews and non-Jews.
Jordan Rosenblum
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A study to establish the most plausible background to the Fourth Gospel (John)

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010
The quest to establish a conceptual background of the fourth gospel has led to converging and diverging opinions. This study reviewed and compared literature on the fourth gospel to establish its most plausible background.
Vhumani Magezi, Peter Manzanga
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Menorah Review (No. 6, Winter, 1986) [PDF]

, 1986
On How Being Jewish Is Different -- Is Good Business Good?

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Jewish Studies: Are They Ethnic? [PDF]

, 1989
The history of Jewish studies has not yet been written. Scholars engaged in this field, however, are beginning to subject it to searching analysis. Pertinent articles have appeared that offer two extreme positions on the development of Jewish studies ...
Adelman, Howard
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Menorah Review (No. 66, Winter/Spring, 2007) [PDF]

, 2007
A Collection by MR\u27s Poet Laureate -- Examining Historiography -- Revisiting Jewish Radicalism -- The World of Rabbi Nathan -- Why a Dictionary of ...

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Is there a theology of rabbinic Judaism?

Nordisk Judaistik, 1995
What is at stake in the problem of theology? It is whether or not, out of a given body of authoritative writings, we may appeal to that –ism, that “Judaism”, that all of us assume forms the matrix for all the documents all together.
Jacob Neusner
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The Gods of My Father Terah’: Abraham the Iconoclast and the Polemics with the Divine Body Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham [PDF]

, 2008
The first eight chapters of the Apocalypse of Abraham recount the early years of the young hero of the faith who is depicted as a fighter against the idolatrous practices of his father Terah. The conceptual developments found in this section of the work,
Orlov, Andrei
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Yoysef Meyer Yavets (1832–1914), Yiddish Translator of Sacred Jewish Books

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This article examines the life and work of Yoysef Meyer Yavets (1832-1914), a figure largely neglected in scholarship on modern Yiddish literature, despite his immense influence on generations of Yiddish readers that continues to the present day.
Tal Hever-Chybowski
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