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Staging Rachel : Rabbinic Midrash, Theatrical Mime, and Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity

, 2020
Lamentations Rabbah Proem 24, a late ancient rabbinic midrash, is in many ways a unique text within the entire rabbinic corpus. It presents an extraordinary array of characters (including Abraham, Moses, the Torah, and even the alphabet) who are called ...
Hadjittofi, Fotini, Sivan, Hagith
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Solomon Schechter and medieval European rabbinic literature [PDF]

Solomon Schechter’s contributions to our knowledge of the rabbinic texts in the Cairo Genizah are legendary. But Schechter also expressed a wide variety of important ideas and theories about rabbinic literature and thought from other locales and periods.
Kanarfogel, Ephraim
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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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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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Review of "The birth of doubt: Confronting uncertainty in early rabbinic literature", by M. Halbertal

Book reviewThis review-essay considers the book by Moshe Halbertal, The Birth of Doubt: Confronting Uncertainty in Early Rabbinic Literature (Brown, 2020), and highlights certain pragmatist trajectories in the book and in its scholarly object - early ...
Berman, Nadav S.
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A Jewish Ethical Account of the Abyss of Responsibility in the Anthropocene

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This article addresses the “abyss of responsibility” in the Anthropocene, where accountability for climate change is routinely outsourced to institutions.
Miriam Rafai
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Introduction to rabbinic literature

, 1994
"With the publication of this volume, the Anchor Bible Reference Library achieves a landmark in the history of rabbinic literature and religion. In Introduction to Rabbinic Literature, legendary author Jacob Neusner collects the essence of a lifetime of ...
Neusner, Jacob 1932-2016
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Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature

, 2023
Holger M. Zellentin seeks to probe how far the classical rabbis took their literary playfulness in order to advance their religious and societal causes. Building on the literary approaches to rabbinic Judaism of the past decades, this work considers the ...
Zellentin, Holger Michael
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A Moveable Israel: Covenant Theology and Reformed Memory in the 1531 Zurich Bible

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The very latest scholarship on the Swiss Reformation has urged us to resituate the conceptual origins and first articulations of a Reformed Covenant theology in the Zurich of Zwingli, Jud, Pellikan, and Bullinger, rather than in the Geneva of Calvin and ...
Colin Hoch
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Sociocultural and Religious Perspectives Toward the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Haredi Jewish Community. [PDF]

J Relig Health, 2023
Berger Lipsky T, Gabbay E.
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