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Understanding the bible text.
At a time when Jews in the United States appear more secure and successful than ever, Freedman maintains that cultural and religious differences are tearing apart their community.
Judaism is a monotheistic religion with a history of over 3,500 years. 'Defining Judaism' illustrates the range of theoretical and practical issues required for comparative and historical study of the faith. The texts range from historical attempts to define individual 'Jews' to imagining Judaism as a religion like other religions, to modern and post-modern attempts to decentre these earlier definitions. The reader brings together a wide range of essays from influential scholars of ancient and contemporary Judaism to attempt a full picture of Judaism that will be of interest to all those involved in the study of religion.
The sagas of Jacob and his sons are presented in the biblical book of Genesis in a series of sometimes seemingly unrelated episodes. In this book, the author undertakes to show that these episodes are all intimately connected and were selected to illustrate the problems faced by Jacob in coping with the sibling rivalries among his dozen sons and welding them into a collective body capable of giving birth to a nation. The focus in Jacob and His Sons is on what the biblical text is telling us, explicitly as well as implicitly, about the world in which they lived and how the historical conditions came into being for them ultimately to become transformed into a nation. In the struggle to comprehend the biblical text, the author has consulted a wide range of commentaries and studies written over a period of some two millennia that have sought to understand the biblical texts from a wide variety of perspectives, many of which are presented for the reader's consideration, including many sources inaccessible to those without a working knowledge of Hebrew.
This thought-provoking and enlightening book uncovers unknown but true facts about Maimonides, his family and his unique, often controversial, but brilliant ideas.
A life's journey that started with a struggle and deception continues into adulthood. Jacob's life was full of drama--feuding with his brother Esau, wrestling with an angel, and jealousy between his wives Rachel and Leah. One beloved wife who is barren at first and one unloved wife who is blessed with sons. Fathering children who formed the twelve tribes of Israel. The Jacob story invites the reader into tensions between settling and wandering, hope and despair, trickery and fidelity, faith and doubt. These stories reflect Jacob's life and his struggles with people and God. Regarding the Jacob stories, the question of their composition and historical value has captured the attention of Biblical scholars for centuries. Some view these accounts as myths or literary epics. So what is behind these stories? To answer these questions the author examines the patriarch's beliefs, customs, and daily life. In this book the author provides provocative and useful answers regarding who the father of the nation of Israel was.
In Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism, Yael Israel-Cohen offers an intricate picture of feminist religious identity, resistance, and religious change.
Tehillim 1:2 But his delight is in the Torah of MarYah, and on His Torah he meditates day and night. The Netzarim follow Nosach Sefarad and Nosach Teiman because the Teimani (Yemenite) tradition-liturgy, halakhah, and culture-best reflects the 1st-century practices endorsed by Ribi Yehoshua. It is the oldest tradition, the least tainted by external forces, and therefore the closest to Har Sinai.
Aramaic was the native language of Yeshoo (Jesus). Etymologically, Allāh (Arabic name of god) is derived from the words Allaha (He was Deified), in Arabic "my god" will be ELAHAi like in Aramaic. So then for Yeshoo (Jesus) Allaha meant god !!!: ) "Abba means father" in Arabic too. At the end of each chapter the Commentary on the New Testament is from the Talmud and Hebraica by John Lightfoot which puts insight Into this work along with the Aramaic Peshitta the Codex Ambrosianus and both the Kahbourish codex and the Crawford codex which were consulted and used as resources and research with other Ancient Aramaic manuscripts, including elucidated commentaries on the new testament from the Talmud and Hebraic. Due weight was given to the ancient versions as establishing a tradition of interpretation, out of the four levels of interpretation Parshat, Remez, D'rash, Sod, the Parshat method was employed for this translation of the Apostolic writings of Lūqā. English / Aramaic. Rav Yaakov Bar Yosef D.D.
The Book of Matiytyahu, written originally in Hebrew, was the only document accepted by the Netzarim as the authentic story of Ribi Eashoa. We are redeeming the Original (1st-century pre-Christian) B'nai Ysrael Ha'Derech of historical Ribi Eashoa before the Roman Hellenist Apostasy of 135CE.