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Biblical Prose Prayer: As a Window to the Popular Religion of Ancient Israel
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ISBN: 0520050126 0585281041 Year: 1983 Volume: [1]


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The achievements of biblical religion : a prolegomenon to Old Testament theology
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ISBN: 0819131415 Year: 1983 Publisher: Lanham University press of America

The problem of war in the Old Testament.
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ISBN: 0802817424 9780802817426 Year: 1983 Publisher: Grand Rapids Eerdmans

Truth and compassion
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ISBN: 9780889207516 0889207518 0889201439 9780889201439 1282166964 9781282166967 9786613810038 6613810037 Year: 1983 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont., Canada

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These essays represent a multidisciplinary approach to the study of religion and, especially, Judaism. Setting aside common scholarly concerns with source criticism and history of interpretation, Shimon Levy argues that in Numbers 11 the redactor has forged diverse elements into a unity. Observing that much of what is said about Second Commonwealth Judaic culture is speculative, Jack Lightstone calls for radical revision of accepted portrayals of the period. Ira Robinson's study of al-Kirkisani's effort to differentiate magic and miracle while demonstrating the rationality of belief in miracle locates his thoughts in the context of Rabbinic and Muslim treatments of the subject. While historians of modern Judaism have acknowledged in the influence of Kant and Hegel, Rousseau, contends Michel Despland, is often overlooked; he opened the way for changes in social and religious life. In Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history Charles Davis finds a significant combining of elements from Kabbalistic and Marxist thought. Michael Oppenheim finds a common core of concerns addressed by modern Jewish philosophers: a struggle with modernity, identification with Jewish thought and values, and commitment to their Jewish communities. Gershon Hundert's "Reflections on the 'Whig' Interpretation of Jewish History" argues—vis-à-vis the Jerusalem school of Zionist historians—that the responsibility of national historians to their community can be fulfilled only by repudiating ideologies that may stand in the way of the search for truth. Howard Joseph's survey of teh extensive literature on the Holocaust indicates the options the authors find most worthy of continued focus. Jerome Eckstein critically examines one of the few published pieces by Joseph Soloveitchik, who combines the Talmudic genius of the Lithuanian Yeshiva world with mastery of the Western intellectual tradition. B. Barry Levy's study of the Artscroll series of translations of and commentaries on biblical literature examines the assumptions and methodology of the series and the hidden agenda that emerges. Frederick Bird's comparison of charity ethics in Judaism and Christianity draws attention to the imprint on these ethics of the formative period of each religion. The volume will be of interest to student of the Bible, Judaism, and Christianity.


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Un Messie nommé Joseph.
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ISBN: 222601733X 9782226017338 Year: 1983 Volume: 5 Publisher: Paris Albin Michel


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