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The design argument, also known as the teleological argument, is one of the most commonly used evidences of the existence of a Creator God. Over the centuries, the argument has taken many forms, from the pre-Socratics to Jewish rabbis to... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsPhilosophy Of ReligionJewish StudiesTheology
NATIVE MESSENGERS OF GOD IN CANADA?: A TEST CASE FOR BAHA’I UNIVERSALISM (1996) *** Christopher Buck, “Native Messengers of God in Canada?: A Test Case for Baha’i Universalism.” Baha’i Studies Review 6 (1996): 97–133. *** Award... more
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      ReligionAbrahamic ReligionsNative American ReligionsNew Religious Movements
DNA and other evidence suggests the early history of the Hebrew Old Testament concerns two entirely separate people united by monotheism and military conquest. The first, taking the name of Israelites from Israel (Jacob), the grandson of... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsIslamic HistoryAncient HebrewEthiopia
Abraham experienced a bodily resurrection of the dead in nuce when God empowered him to procreate at age ninety-nine. A miraculous act of re-invigoration enabled Abraham and Sarah to conceive the child-of-promise (Isaac) when it was... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsTheologyNew TestamentBiblical Theology
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      Abrahamic ReligionsComparative ReligionEarly Judaism (2nd Temple, Greco-Roman)Early Christianity
This thesis (288 pages) represents an qualitative and historic inquiry into the meaning of abortion in present day Norway. The thesis includes new material (interviews with women and men), focused analysis of the relation and dynamics... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsCultural StudiesGender StudiesFeminist Theory
Padre Claudio Monge, consultore del Pontificio consiglio per il dialogo interreligioso e responsabile del Centro di documentazione interreligiosa dei domenicani Dominican Study Institute di Istanbul, Laura Mulayka Enriello, fondatrice... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsHospitality StudiesInterfaith Dialogue
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      Abrahamic ReligionsAncient Egyptian ReligionExodusPolytheism
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      ReligionAbrahamic ReligionsComparative ReligionAnthropology
Purity rules and discourses are present in all three Abrahamic religions, serving as a medium in structuring their moral, social and ritual worlds and in constructing the holiness of the religious community, religious spaces and the... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsDemonologyPurityRitual Purity
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JBL 137.3 (2018): 555-79. The postmodern turn in the humanities is now at a point that requires response and revision to some deconstructionist trends. As a case study, this article examines the inversion principle formulated by Claude... more
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      Critical TheoryAbrahamic ReligionsMythologyBiblical Studies
This monograph arose from thinking about the literary tradition as described by the Anglo-American modernist writers Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. In their view, the tradition of European love-lyrics crystallized in the work of the medieval... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsComparative LiteraturePopular MusicMedieval Studies
In the early 1990s, a group of Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars nurtured a practice of shared study across the borders of different scriptural traditions, dubbed Scriptural Reasoning (SR). Over time, participants adapted their... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsPeace and Conflict StudiesValue TheoryScriptural Reasoning
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      Abrahamic ReligionsEpistemology Of Religious ExperienceKant's EthicsAkedah (the binding and near murder of Isaac)
The volume "New Directions in Spiritual Kinship: Sacred Ties Across the Abrahamic Religions," edited by Todne Thomas, Asiya Malik and Rose Wellman, undertakes a comparative analysis of "spiritual kinship" (such as God-parenthood) in... more
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      ReligionAbrahamic ReligionsComparative ReligionSocial Theory
To help students and instructors with my Jerusalem. Brief History, here is a sheet of chapter by chapter study questions I use when teaching the course. For more on the book see... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsOttoman HistoryMiddle East StudiesIsrael Studies
The Palestinian-Israeli problem has been the most significant obstacle in the peace process in the Middle East. The Balfour Declaration between the British Empire and the Zionists in 1917, which explicitly declared support for creating a... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsInternational RelationsPeace and Conflict StudiesMiddle East & North Africa
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      Abrahamic ReligionsJewish StudiesHebrew BibleModern Art
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A Meditation on the Meaning of God's Covenant with Abraham (renewed with Isaac and Jacob) in the context of the Relationship between Jews and Christians in World History
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      Abrahamic ReligionsIsrael StudiesWorld HistoryCovenant Theology
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      Abrahamic ReligionsIslamBook of GenesisBible
The near sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis 22:1-19 is a terrifying yet intriguing pericope that is notoriously difficult to interpret. While some assume this selection was written to oppose child sacrifice I argue that it has cosmic... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsChristianityLiteratureLiterary Criticism
כדי להציג ולהדגים את גוון האמונה ההיברידית של אברהם נבקש להתחקות אחר שיירים של מיתוס זר, למתוח את הציר שבין נוכחותו בפועל ובין ייצוגו באופן אך סמלי, ולזהות את היסוד שמטשטש את הקשר ויוצר למעשה את הפער. בהתאם להגדרתנו "אמונה היברידית"... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsHuman sacrifice (Anthropology Of Religion)TestMonotheism
Did Jesus foretell the advent of Islam? The short answer is "Yes." He mentioned Prophet Muhammad by his name. It is in the Gospel of John and the book of Revelation. This is a key turn in the history of Christian - Muslim relations... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsQuranic StudiesBibleInterfaith Dialogue
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      ReligionAbrahamic ReligionsPeace and Conflict StudiesDialogue
What is the relationship between friendship and human flourishing? This is a central topic in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and one to which Maimonides also returned throughout his career. Despite the relative neglect of this topic in... more
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      ReligionAbrahamic ReligionsComparative ReligionJewish Law
International Summer School in Interreligious Studies - Protest and Proclamation: An Interreligious Perspective Towards the History of Prophetology - The Centre for Interreligious Studies based at the Almo Collegio Borromeo, Pavia,... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsJewish StudiesTalmudEarly Christianity
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      ReligionAbrahamic ReligionsSociologyPolitical Sociology
In the 84 page Pearlman YeC volume 5, we conclude Abraham is the true Atlas. That Atlantis was based on Sodom, Dead sea, Jordan Valley and Land of Israel. We correct the history books on chronology and even some relative dating. From... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsAncient HistoryEgyptologyPlato
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The Holiness Code in the Torah’s book of Leviticus is the source of orthodox Judaism’s sexual prohibitions. The prohibitions have been passed down by the Jews (who authored them) and the Christians (who inherited them from the Jews) for... more
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      ReligionAbrahamic ReligionsPhilosophy Of ReligionWomen's Studies
This book establishes the interconnection between the major religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It establishes the common ancestry of the followers of every religion leading to the first man Adam and his... more
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      ReligionAbrahamic ReligionsComparative ReligionHistory
At first sight the title must seem like a misunderstanding at best, at worst an intentional perversity. After all, the 'Prodigal Son' is not a person, but a character in a parable, a literary form where from the beginning both speaker and... more
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      ReligionAbrahamic ReligionsChristianityTheology
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Essay is a development of the author’s talk, “Mosque as Metaphor” delivered at The Hall of Philosophy, Chautauqua Institution, New York, on July 27, 2000. “Ka’ba, in Arabic, means the “cube” and also “a shape that emerges”— both the form... more
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“Seal of the Prophets” (Q. 33:40) & “Divine Presence” (Q. 33:44): Why These Two Key Verses Should Be Read Together Muḥammad is not the father of any one of your men, but the Messenger of God, and the Seal of the Prophets; God has... more
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Syriac and the Qurʾān - Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān - 2018 **Syriac was an Aramaic dialect spoken by Christians in and around Arabia during the time of the Qurʾān’s appearance. It or… **Article Table of Contents The place of Syriac... more
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‫ﻣﻨﻈﻮر‬ ‫ﻣﻦ‬ ‫ﻣﺎﻳﻮ‬ 14 ‫ﺻﻼة‬ ‫اﻟﺪﻳﻦ:ﺗﺒﻌﺎت‬ ‫رﺟﺎل‬ ‫إﻟﻰ‬ ‫رﺳﺎﻟﺔ‬ ‫ﺗﻜﺘﺐ‬ ‫اﻟﺪﻳﻦ‬ ‫ﺟﻤﺎل‬ ‫ﻫﺒﺔ‬ ‫د.‬ ‫اﻟﺸﻌﺎﺋﺮي‬ ‫اﻟﺤﻮار‬ 2020 ,9 ‫ﻣﺎﻳﻮ‬ ‫ﻓﻲ‬ ‫اﻷﻫﺎﻟﻲ‬ ‫ﺟﺮﻳﺪة‬ ‫ﻛﺘﺐ‬  917 뀢 Share   917 뀢 Share  ‫اﻷﻫﺎﻟﻲ‬ ‫ﺟﺮﻳﺪة‬ ‫اﻟﺴﺎﺑﻖ‬ ‫اﻟﻤﻮﺿﻮع‬ ... more
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Students will become familiar with the worldviews, religious beliefs, and spiritual practices of the major religious traditions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to studying the sacred texts and the historical developments of... more
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What accounts for Paul’s mention of ‘an angel from heaven’ in Gal. 1:8? Interpreters have typically avoided the question altogether or posited that Paul’s opponents claimed that their counter-gospel (Gal. 1:6-7) was mediated by angels... more
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For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part of the “natural” human experience that is essentially the same across cultures and throughout history. Individual religions may vary... more
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When the Neo- or “New Atheist” publishing frenzy climaxed with Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, Daniel C. Dennett’s Breaking the Spell, Sam Harris’s The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens’ god is not Great and subsequent titles; New... more
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Eid-ul-Adha is one of the main issues that divide the Muslims all over the globe. There are those who celebrate it according to the local moon sighting and then there are those who celebrate it on the day the pilgrims perform the... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsNew Moon SightingSacrifice (Philosophy)Animal Sacrifice (Anthropology)
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This dissertation is based on a number of unpublished Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts written by the indigenous Karaite Jews of Egypt who lived in the Jewish Quarter of Cairo during the early modern era. These 17th- through 19th-century... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsMythology And FolkloreArabic Language and LinguisticsFolk legends