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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Jewish law."”.
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According to What Nomos: Understanding Romans 2 in Conversation with Diaspora Jewish Conceptions of Nomos
<p>The law (nomos) functions as a central piece of Paul's argument in the second chapter of his letter to the community in Rome. Throughout his argument Paul's references to nomos carry such complexity that there is significant disagreement about how to understand this nomos. On the one hand, …
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The experience of motherhood within the Orthodox Jewish community
… motherhood within north-west London’s Orthodox Jewish community. Using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, semi-structured interviews were conducted amongst seven mothers, each with three or more children, the youngest being over the age of one. All participants were religious Orthodox Jews …
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A study of the Apostle Paul's approach to the law in Galatians chapters 2 and 3.
… the writer in his involvement with Christian and Jewish perceptions of Paul and the impassioned response his writing on the law seemed to evoke. This paper investigates Galatians chapters 2 and 3 in an attempt to derive a slightly different reading of Paul‟s treatment of the law to that which …
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Michael Wyschogrod and Jewish Existentialism
… as a disciple of Karl Barth and an exponent of Jewish-Christian dialogue, the dissertation largely brackets these aspects of Wyschogrod’s intellectual background in order to focus on the ways in which his thought deploys themes and tropes drawn especially from the work of Søren Kierkegaard, but …
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Encounter with the eruv : a project towards the city of open enclosures
… of the community. Both the eruv's origin in Jewish law as well as contemporary analysis provide the framework for my own interpretation. The thesis bridges across several disciplines - from architecture, art, Judaism, anthropology, feminism, and cultural studies - to find an approach which …
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The fellowship of St.Diogo : new Christian judaisers in Coimbra in the early 17th century
… scholar. He was also the heir of a long Jewish family tradition. His great-great-grand father lived and died as a Jew. His great-grandfather, his grandmother and two of his uncles were among his relatives to have been sentenced as judaisers by the Inquisition. His own father kept the Law …
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The Legal Philosophies of Religious Zionism 1937-1967
… way of thinking about the relationship between law and the state. Before this shift took place, religious Zionist thinkers affiliated with a variety of legal and constitutional philosophies. As shown in chapter 1, the leaders of the religious kibbutz movement advocated a revolutionary, almost …
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Augustine of Hippo: On Justification by Faith
… doctrines such as the work of Christ, the law, and God’s grace. I also examine both continuity and development across other relevant early-, mid-, and later-career writings. By asserting both comprehensiveness and consistency of Augustine’s views on justification over time, my findings …
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איסור נישואי "מעוברת חברו ומנקת חברו" במשפט העברי
… ruled that there were to be no exceptions to the law, except if the child died. Likewise, the rabbis ruled that the duration of the waiting period would be twenty-four months from the birth of the child. The Geonic period 4. In the Geonic period differences of opinion between the Babylonian Jews …
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Tracking the Continuity of the Leviticus Laws of Genital Fluids in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature
This comparative study explores Leviticus’ rules on the impurity caused by genital fluxes as attested in the Dead Sea Scrolls and rabbinic literature to shed light on the state of halakhah in the pre-rabbinic stage. Using the five impurity categories of genital fluxes outlined in Lev 15 and 12, …
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Redeemed from the curse: Paul's understanding of the law and Gentiles in the light of Hellenistic Judaism
… examines Paul's understanding of the law and Gentiles in the light of Hellenistic Judaism. Chapter 1 questions whether or not Gentiles are under the law in Paul. The thesis of this dissertation is that, although Paul acknowledges Gentiles to be without the law (Rom 2:14) and Israel as …
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Fulfilling the law apart from the law: A discourse approach to Paul and the law in Romans
… interpretive debates concerning the Mosaic Law. Chapter 2 outlines an integrative model of understanding language--systemic-functional linguistics (SFL)--that forms the foundation of this study and the central pillar for the application of that theory--corpus linguistics using the annotation …
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Between rule and responsibility: The role of the 'AB as agent of righteousness in Deuteronomy's domestic ideology
… referred to under the rubric of "family law," which specifically address the rights and responsibilities of the father in relation to other members of his household. These texts include Deuteronomy 21:10-14; 21:15-17; 21:18-21; 22:13-21; 24:1-4; 24:5 and 25:5-10. Each text is examined …
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Esperienze di pluralismo culturale e religioso nel diritto ecclesiastico coloniale italiano. Norme, giurisprudenza, dottrina
Questo lavoro ha per oggetto lo studio della rilevanza dei diritti etnico-religiosi nell’ordinamento italiano durante periodo storico delle conquiste coloniali. È una ricerca che si inscrive in un filone d’indagine che ha portato alla riscoperta di temi, autori, istituzioni proprie di una società …