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A Survey of Church Libraries

open access: yes, 2017
This article reports the results of a survey of congregational libraries, documents the current state of congregational libraries, and updates previous statistical studies.
Bosman, Ellen
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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient east and other historical reminiscences in the architectural concept of the Synagogue of Trieste

open access: yesАрхитектон
The article is dedicated to the Trieste Synagogue (1906-1912) as an example of Italian synagogue architecture of the Risorgimento (1870-1910) and pan–European Jewish emancipation period.
Kolotygina Maria V.
doaj   +1 more source

Forgiveness in Judaism: from the Perspective of Yom Kippur Ritual

open access: yesPaedagogia Christiana, 2016
The aim of the article is to present the main elements of the idea of forgiveness, which has developed over the centuries in Judaism, and link it with the ritual of Yom Kippur.
Krzysztof Pilarczyk
doaj   +1 more source

Menorah Review (No. 47, Fall, 1999) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Physician-Assisted Suicide -- What Price Prejudice? -- The American Synagogue: Now and Then -- Amelek -- Picks and Pans from the Feminist\u27s Corner -- King David -- A Good Life Now and Then -- Noteworthy ...

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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
wiley   +1 more source

Adat Reyim: The Synagogue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Student perspectives on worship services from Instructor Jennifer Garvin-Sanchez\u27s Religious Studies 108 Human Spirituality course at Virginia Commonwealth ...
Friske, Rachel
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Genetics of infertility and “assisted fertilization” in the Bible: The case of Abraham and his family

open access: yesAndrology, EarlyView.
Abstract Couple infertility is a very ancient medical condition. One of the first descriptions of familial infertility/subfertility is contained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, written in the 10th century BC and reporting tales from the oral tradition even occurred about 800 years earlier.
Manuela Simoni   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Torah Ark of Arthur Szyk

open access: yesArts, 2020
This paper discusses the design and symbolism of a hitherto unpublished work by the artist Arthur Szyk (1894–1951), an ark for the Torah which he designed for the Forest Hills Jewish Center of Queens, New York, and which was dedicated in 1949.
Susan Nashman Fraiman
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Who is “Worthy of Honour”? Women as Elders in Late Second Temple Period Literature

open access: yesJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2022
Groups and individuals known as “elders” (Greek: presbyteros, gerousia; Hebrew: zaqan) are often found in ancient Jewish texts and inscriptions. Their ubiquity in such texts and inscriptions is accompanied by very little information about their actual ...
Joseph Scales
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