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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Judah."”.
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Judah Halevi, religious thinker and poet : comparative study of his "Kuzari" and poetry
… first attempt at a comparative study in which Judah Halevi's main ideas and teachings as they find expression in his philosophical work "The Kuzari" are compared and contrasted with their treatment in his poetical work. We feel that such a contrasting and comparative study may bring us nearer …
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The Expansion of Judah Under Uzziah into Philistia: The Historical Credibility of 2 Chronicles 26:6-7a in Light of Archaeological Evidence
… his portrayal of the kings and people of Judah and hence casts serious doubts on the historical credibility of his work. In his treatment of the kings of Judah, the author regularly provides information missing from parallel biblical texts. Accordingly, whether the author of Chronicles …
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The message of the prophet Haggai : a socio-political approach
… destruction of the First Temple and the fall of Judah. The elite in Jerusalem are exiled by their Babylonian conquerors. The people who remained behind lived in a state of economic depression, yet they rally together and soon the sacrificial cult is resumed. New leaders come to the fore in both …
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The Political Activities of Jeremiah and the Pro-Babylonian Party
… of Babylon; Egypt during the Assyrian empire; Judah and the Assyrian conquest; independence and reform during the reign of Josiah; relapse of the reform and the last days of Judah -- Chapter two: Jeremiah, his call and his message -- Jeremiah's early life; Jeremiah's call; Jeremiah's message -- …
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Good queen mothers, bad queen mothers : the theological presentation of the queen mother in 1 and 2 Kings.
… list the name of the mother of the king for Judah, signaling an importance on the part of the queen mother and her place within the theological presentation of the books. This dissertation investigates the multiple passages in which the mother of the king appears outside of the regnal …
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Forcing in Analysis and Combinatorics
… long-standing question due to Bartoszy\'nski and Judah. (2) Constructing a model of Set Theory in which Jensen's $\diamondsuit_{\aleph_1}$ fails, there is a counterexample to Naimark's Problem, and there is a separably represented $\textrm{C}^\ast$-algebra with exactly two inequivalent irreducible …
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An Anonymous Karaite Commentary of the Fourteenth Century on the Book of Deuteronomy: Comments on Chapter Thirty-Two Edited from a Manuscript in the Sulzberger Collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary Library with Translation and Introduction
… Abu'l-Faraj Furqan Ibn Assd (Jeshua ben Judah), succeeded his teacher as the attraction of this intellectual center and influenced Jewish thought as far away as Spain.4
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A Critical Examination of the Later Omrides
… middle of the ninth century B.C.E. in Israel and Judah. This article challenges contemporary scholarship of the Omride period with the identification of Joram, son of Ahab, as a phantom of the Deuteronomistic author. In this analysis Joram ben Ahab was invented to cover the reality of a Davidic …
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Who is Paying for God: A thematic analysis of Henry Arthur Jones's religious plays in relation to the modernist trend
… of Jones’s plays <em>Michael and His Lost Angel, Judah, </em>and <em>Saints and Sinners, </em>this project examines Jones’s use of popular theatrical genres to provide commentary on the religious and fiscal tensions in the surrounding Victorian society. The critical commentary in Jones’s plays is …
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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
… from El Cantar de Mío Cid, the Tahkemoni by Judah Ibn-Harīzī, and zajal and muwashshaha style poetry by Ibn-Quzmān and Al A’ma al-Tutīlī. By comparing the rhizome and chronotope experienced in Medieval Spain with those being experienced in Israel-Palestine, this thesis will continue to add to …
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Esther and the Maccabees: The Creation of a Hellenist Jewish Heroine
… shift from Israelite diaspora away from Judah to the reality of diaspora as well as establishment of a unified Maccabean Kingdom in Judah. Lastly, there is an identity shift away from a tribal group called Judeans tied to an allotment of land toward a new definition of religious, …
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Literary And Linguistic Studies In Sefer Bilvam (Numbers 22–24)
… it points to the conclusion that this is a Judahite text from the 8th century BCE, whose content draws on Gileadite Balaam traditions that penetrated into Judah as a consequence of Assyrian incursions into the region under Tiglath-Pileser III (744-727 BCE).
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Reforging history : the divine warrior in Persian period expansions in "The twelve".
… in all of the consequential events affecting Judah and Yehud by means of the motifs of the divine warrior, Chaoskampf, and theophany. These motifs appear commonly in Judean literature and even pre-Persian stages of the Book of the Twelve. Thus, the Persian era application of these motifs does …
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One new humanity in Christ: The use of Ezekiel 37 in Ephesians 2
… extended to include reunification of Israel and Judah. This chapter moves on to identify numerous contact points between Ezekiel 37 and Ephesians 2 in terms of their vocabularies, structure, and themes and thereby establishes a striking relationship. Chapter 3 delves into the interpretation of …
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Matthew1:1–17 as a Summary of Israel’s Story: The Messiah, His Brothers, and the Nations
… why does Matthew append ‘and his brothers’ to Judah and Jechoniah in 1:2 and 1:11? Secondly, why does Matthew include the following four annotations in 1:2–6: ‘and Zerah by Tamar’, ‘by Rahab’, ‘by Ruth’, and ‘by the [wife] of Uriah’? These two questions, especially the latter, continue to be …
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Gideon's Response and Jotham's Fable: Two Anti-Monarchial Texts in a Pro-Monarchial Book?
… there appears to be a focus on the tribe of Judah and an explicitly pro-monarchial refrain. These studies have largely neglected Gideon's response and Jotham's fable, which have been described by some scholars as two of the most anti-monarchial texts in the entire Old Testament. This …
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The Resurrection Motif in Hosea 5:8-6:6: an Exegetical Study
… of sickness and death leveled on Israel and Judah. The response in 6:1-3 reveals that the people expected both healing from sickness and resurrection from death. It is shown in greater detail that the twin parallel terms sk30 and sk30 in Hos 6:2 and in the remainder of the OT without …
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Magical Rhetoric and Anti-Witchcraft Motifs in Jeremiah: A Comparative Analysis with the Mesopotamian Maqlû Ritual
… rhetoric in the oracles of doom to depict Judah as fatefully ensnared in the deceptions of false prophets and corrupt religious and royal authorities. These imprecations, functioning as divine responses to covenantal breaches, draw heavily on the curses of Deuteronomy 28 (cf. Mastnjak 2016) …
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The Presence of the Covenant Motif in Amos 1:2-2:16
… laws of God (universal/Noahic covenant), while Judah and Israel are judged for transgressions of the Mosaic law (Mosaic covenant).</p> <p>The exegetical study of Amos 1:2-2:16 evidenced a substantial presence and use of the covenant motif in this series of oracles. Four OT covenants …
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