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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Rabbinic literature"”.
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Tracking the Continuity of the Leviticus Laws of Genital Fluids in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature
… 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, this study demonstrates the Dead Sea Scrolls' relevance as a textual product of the …
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Language in Roman Caesarea Maritima
… quotations of Caesarean rabbis in works of rabbinic literature such as the Jerusalem Talmud, and the Greek writings of Eusebius and Procopius, native Caesareans, and Origen, an adopted Caesarean. I argue that Greek served as a unifying language at Caesarea across the different groups, in a …
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Rabbi Akiba Eger: His Life and Times
… the long years of his ministry. The study of rabbinical responsa is important to the historian because it enables him to study the actual living conditions of a period. Eger's responsa consist of two parts: some deal exclusively with explanations of difficult passages in the Talmudic …
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Haima in Hebrews
… from the works of both Philo and Josephus, Rabbinic literature, the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran community, and the NT. The final chapter of the dissertation deals with the meaning of blood in the Epistle itself, where the author of Hebrews uses his rhetorical skill to present blood …
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Jerome's sources in his translation of the Hebrew Bible
… the Targumim and with specific passages from rabbinic literature. This comparative analysis sheds light on Jerome’s responses to texts written in four languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin, and on his treatment of both Christian and Jewish traditions. Furthermore, the Vulgate …
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Reconsidering Eternal Life in the Old Testament: The Idea of Resurrection Rooted in the Torah
… apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, the rabbinic literature, and Christian writers from early church Fathers. Jewish and Christian interpretative traditions consistently support the presence of the idea of resurrection in the OT. Chapter 3 examines scriptures in the Torah where the idea …
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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
… verbally and that he accesses a wide range of rabbinic literature, partly covered by the term Gamaliel, with the help of a contemporary teacher, referred to as litterator meus. In the fourth chapter I investigate Herbert's debt to Jerome's methodology and text-critical skills and his reliance …
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The Signs of the Parousia: a Diachronic and Comparative Study of the Apocalyptic Vocabulary of Matthew 24:27-31
… in Matt 24:27-31 with that of the apocalyptic literature by tracing its possible literary allusions or parallels.</p> <p>Chapter 1 states the problems concerning Matt 24:27-31, as well as the purpose and limitation of the study; reviews relevant literature; describes methodology and procedures …
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The Banquet Type-Scene in the Parables of Jesus
… New Testament, Early Christian Noncanonical, and Rabbinic literature of Tannaim. It was discovered that at the time of Jesus all banquet-type scenes bore two basic structural elements: the preparation of a banquet and selective invitation. From that point in the structure, the plot of the banquet …
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The Afterlife Views and the Use of the TaNaKh in Support of the Resurrection Concept in the Literature of Second Temple Period Judaism: The Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha
<p>The literature of Second Temple Period Judaism indicates there was an increased interest in and speculation about the fate of the righteous and the wicked following their physical death. This period saw the birth of multiple Jewish sects and also multiple views of the afterlife. This study will …