Judaism
epub, pdf |eng | 2000-01-31 | Author:Norman Solomon [Solomon, Norman]

The liturgy The Psalmist prayed seven times a day (Ps. 119: 164), and Daniel, in Babylon, three times (Dan. 6: 11). Though some scholars demur, it seems certain that Jewish ...
( Category: Judaism December 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Simon Schama

Naghrela was both the beneficiary of the endless wars of the Zirid Berber amirs, and the predictable victim of their relentlessness. The last campaigns, when he was in his middle ...
( Category: History December 5,2015 )
epub, pdf | | 2010-10-28 | Author:Lumpkin, Joseph B. [Lumpkin, Joseph B.]

The wife of Nir was Sopanim. She was sterile and never had at any time given birth to a child by Nir. Sopanim was in her old age and in ...
( Category: Guides October 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Iain M. Duguid [Duguid, Iain M.]

But that safety is only for those for whom Christ died. Those outside Christ are left exposed to the full weight of the crushing, piercing, burning wrath of God. The ...
( Category: Judaism September 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Deen, Shulem

The next time I saw Yakov Mayer, he was trying his luck again with life insurance. He’d sold a couple of policies, he said. “With God’s help, it’ll all work ...
( Category: Hasidism August 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-28 | Author:Israel Shahak [Shahak, Israel]

Major Features of Classical Judaism Let us therefore ignore those ‘dark ages’, and for the sake of convenience begin with the two centuries 1000-1200, for which abundant information is available ...
( Category: History & Theory July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-30 | Author:David Ibry [Ibry, David]

Sidney Epton (see his contribution to chapter 7) sums it up as follows: "I see every Jewish achievement, every Jewish virtue as weakening the cause of the anti-Semites, and I ...
( Category: Jewish Life July 31,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Shlomo Sand [Sand, Shlomo]

1. An acronym for plugot machatz, or ‘shock troops’, a paramilitary organization predating the foundation of the State of Israel and the Tzahal, the Israeli Defense Forces. CHAPTER 8 Remembering ...
( Category: Judaism July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-29 | Author:Michael Carin [Carin, Michael]

God has chosen not to respond to such requests, and his apologists the theologians maintain that He must have his reasons. A great out for the theologians. The wager from ...
( Category: Judaism July 31,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2002-02-27 | Author:K. Lawson Younger

And Yahweh does just that. Therefore, since the reader already knows that Yahweh would have given Jephthah success in battle even without his vow, the vow and its negative consequences ...
( Category: Old Testament July 21,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Brendan Powell Smith

YAHWEH MADE PHARAOH STUBBORN, AND HE PURSUED THE ISRAELITES AND CAUGHT UP WITH THEM. AS PHARAOH APPROACHED, THE ISRAELITES LOOKED UP AND SAW THE EGYPTIANS IN PURSUIT OF THEM. THE ...
( Category: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) July 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Judith Shulevitz [Shulevitz, Judith]

5. IT WAS IGNATIUS, the bishop of Antioch under the Roman emperor Trajan at the very beginning of the second century C.E., who came up with the term “Sabbatizing.” It ...
( Category: Judaism July 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-12 | Author:Norman Solomon

- M - MACCABEE. See FAITH AND REASON; HANUKA; ḤASID; JOSIPPON; SADDUCEES; Table 19. Judah the Maccabee led the Jewish revolt against the Seleucids in 168 BCE. The origin of ...
( Category: Judaism June 13,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Jacobson, Howard [Howard, Jacobson,]

SEVEN 1 The agreement had been that Treslove would take his sons on holiday and then see. Heads he'd resume his previous existence, forget all the rubbish, go out looking ...
( Category: Jewish June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Flavius Josephus [Josephus, Flavius]

WHAT CHARGE DAVID GAVE TO HIS SON SOLOMON AT THE APPROACH OF HIS DEATH, AND HOW MANY THINGS HE LEFT HIM FOR THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE. 1. A LITTLE ...
( Category: Judaism June 12,2015 )