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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Jewish-Christian."”.
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Muslim Distinction: Imitation and the Anxiety of Jewish, Christian, and Other Influences
… initially looked favorably upon assimilating Jewish and Christian religious and cultural practices. As Muslim collective religious identity conjoined with political power, Muslims changed their religious policy from imitation to distinction; they began to define themselves both above and …
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The sacrificial Christology of Hebrews : a Jewish Christian contribution to the modern debate about the Person of Christ
… this text, which also recognises its essential `Jewish' Christian character. Some modem scholars recognise that Hebrews contains a distinctive portrait of the human historic Jesus. On the basis that modem study has advocated that Christology should be constructed from below, this thesis first …
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The Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Twelfth-Century Western Europe: the Hebrew and Latin Sources of Herbert of Bosham's Commentary on the Psalms
… from three interconnected traditions: that of Christian Hebraism founded by Jerome, that of textual criticism of the Bible and that of literal exegesis developed by Rashi and by the Parisian School of Saint Victor. In the second chapter I analyse the extent of Herbert's proficiency in Hebrew …
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Queering Religions Schooling: Teaching, Values, Rituals
… inevitably in opposition to one another. Jewish, Christian, and Muslim perspectives often rely on an identitarian account of religious schooling: the religious school exists to sustain a particular religion’s identity. This impulse frequently rests on a fixed conception of religious …
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Between Ashkenaz and Sepharad, Judaism and Christianity: Asher ben Jehiel as a Liminal Figure in the High Middle Ages
… a communal boundary that exists between Jews and Christians. As a result of being a leading Jewish thinker in Christian lands, his encounter with Christianity was necessary and regular. Subsequently, we see many references to Christianity in his works, with a duality emerging. This dissertation …
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Sexing the Jew: Early Christian Constructions of Jewishness
<p>My dissertation analyzes early Christian representations of Jewish sexuality and explores how early Christian writers attacked opponents by depicting them as subjects of perverse or excessive sexual desires. Beginning with the New Testament, I examine how Paul employed sexual stereotypes to …
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Consulting the past: a comparison of relations between Abrahamic religions in medieval Spain and its reflection in today’s Israel-Palestine relations
… not synonymous, even though Muslims, Jews and Christians continue to live together at present time in a small geographic area. Many are familiar with the Christian Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, but many more are unaware of the cohabitation that took place between Christians, Muslims and …
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Brothers in Blood: the Significance of Land and Loss in the Creation of Jewish and Native American Ethnic and Religious identity
… Significance of Land and Loss in the Creation of Jewish and Native American Ethnic and Religious Identity, represents an educational union between Syracuse University and the Onondaga Nation School as much as it explores the historical, theological and political interfaces between American Jews …
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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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Asceticism, the sage, and the evil inclination : points of contact between Jews and Christians in late antiquity.
In Jewish Christian comparative studies, especially concerning late antiquity, there exists a need to explore in more detail the ways in which Jews and Christians interacted religiously and socially. Scholars have hinted at the need to address salient issues in the histories of both Judaism and …
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The Sacred Times Prescribed in the Pentateuch : Old Testament Indicators of the Extent of Their Applicability
… are explored for biblical theology and for Jewish-Christian dialogue.</p>
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Abraham traditions in Middle Jewish literature : implications for the interpretation of Galatians and Romans.
… Abraham functioned in different types of Middle Jewish works. In several different contexts, Abraham functioned as the ideal Jew. The most popular traditions were that Abraham was the first monotheist and anti-idolater, he was obedient to the Mosaic law, and he was hospitable. In Galatians Paul …
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La Villa de las Tres Cuturas: A Study of a New Tourist Festival in Frigiliana, al-Ándalus
… in 2006 and celebrates the village’s plural Jewish, Christian and Muslim past. The thesis argues that a recent tourist invention has moved beyond the confines of a four-day commercial event and into the everyday lives of the population. It argues that through the sustained management of …
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From Lineage to Legacy: Charles Garland Verrinder and Victorian Anglo-Jewish Music
… provides an unusual insight into the world of Jewish music in Victorian Britain. An Anglican musician trained as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and with Royal Organist Sir George Elvey, Verrinder’s forty-five-year career as the first organist of the West London Synagogue (Britain’s first …
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The Metaphysics of Light in the Hexaemeral Literature: From Philo of Alexandria to Ambrose of Milan
… investigates the concept of light in the early Jewish-Christian exegesis of the biblical creation narrative (Gen. 1, so-called ‘hexaemeron’). The study argues that the early hexaemeral exegetes theorised light from a dual perspective, both physical and metaphysical. The physical exegesis …
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