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Judaism's Strange Gods
In Judaism's Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded Christian scholar Michael Hoffman documents his provocative thesis that Judaism is not the religion of the Old Testament, but the newly formalized ... on authoritative Judaic sources, Hoffman demonstrates that Judaism is a man-made religion of tradition and superstition, which represents ...
ancient-origins - 18/11/2016 - 21:16
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Can Jewish People be a Nation, and a Religion, and a Race?
... they are not a race because any non-Jew who converts to Judaism will be recognized as being Jewish by all those rabbis who share a commitment to the same denomination of Judaism as the rabbi who did the conversion. So what really could be considered ...
Rabbi Allen Maller - 18/09/2018 - 01:56
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Can Different Religions Peacefully Share a Sacred Site? A Temple Mount Tragedy
... contention for the three western religious traditions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. While Christianity has Rome, Constantinople, ... “seniority;” and Islam has Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem; Judaism has Jerusalem, and Jerusalem, and Jerusalem. One of the ...
Dr. Steven L. Derfler - 04/03/2017 - 22:52
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The Cutting Truth about Circumcision: It Was All About Rites and Religion
... Circumcision has been practiced in parts of Africa, Oceania, Judaism, and Islam. The form of circumcision that westerners are most familiar ... removal of the foreskin or prepuce, as it is practiced in Judaism. A carving in Italy, circumcision of a child. (NateBW/ CC ...
Caleb Strom - 19/07/2018 - 18:52
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‘God is One’: It wasn’t always like this in Christianity
Today followers of Christianity and Judaism have the belief that there is one God. And not only that, but the One ... is that it wasn’t always like this. In the Early years of Judaism the existence of different Gods of different religious groups was ...
johnblack - 07/05/2013 - 17:48
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Mosaics Provide Clues on Life in an Ancient Galilean Jewish Village
... of the Huqoq synagogue revolutionize our understanding of Judaism in this period," said Magness. "Ancient Jewish art is often thought to ... visual culture as well as to the dynamism and diversity of Judaism in the Late Roman and Byzantine periods." Aerial view of ...
ancient-origins - 10/07/2018 - 14:05
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What New Archaeological Treasures Have Been Unearthed in the Ancient City of Caesarea?
... populace comprised all the major Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Throw in the original religion at the site, ... populace comprised all the major Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Throw in the original religion at the site, ...
Mark Miller - 11/06/2018 - 21:41
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The Khazars: A Forgotten Medieval Empire that Ruled the Northern Caucasus
... ( Public Domain ) The Khazars’ Conversion to Judaism The Khazars would have no doubt encountered both Christianity and ... Khazars did not adopt either faith. Around the 8th century, Judaism began to spread amongst the Khazars, as a result of Jewish settlers. At ...
dhwty - 29/12/2018 - 22:52
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Remnants of a Revolt: What Did Israeli Archaeologists Find Hidden Under Second Temple Period Homes?
... genocide against the Jews and banned their religion, Judaism. Ancient tablet dedicated to Emperor Hadrian may explain mystery ... of ritual baths, or mikvas : “In antiquity, Judaism was already unique in its strict adherence to bodily cleanliness, as ...
Mark Miller - 06/04/2017 - 01:50
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Tammuz and Jesus: More Than a Distant Connection?
... Christianity has its origins in a Middle Eastern religion, Judaism, so it is little surprise that there are some residual similarities ... Christianity has its origins in a Middle Eastern religion, Judaism, so it is little surprise that there are some residual similarities ...
Caleb Strom - 08/02/2018 - 22:48
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The First Temple: Crowning Achievement of King Solomon and Home of the Legendary Ark of the Covenant
... both wealthy and wise. He is recorded as a prophet in both Judaism’s Talmud and Islam’s Quran and one of his major legacies and first ... both wealthy and wise. He is recorded as a prophet in both Judaism’s Talmud and Islam’s Quran and one of his major legacies and first ...
dhwty - 26/10/2017 - 18:56
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Can the Catholicism of Christopher Columbus be Questioned?
... that Columbus was a Sephardi, a converso, concealing his Judaism - yet eager to locate a place of refuge for his persecuted countrymen. ... it is known that many conversos were still practicing their Judaism in secret. Many scholars argue that, were it not for the conversos, ...
Dr. Steven L. Derfler - 23/01/2018 - 18:56
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The Tomb of the Biblical Matriarch Rachel, Entwining Faiths and Generations
... delivery of her youngest son. She is known as the mother of Judaism, but is also an important figure in Christianity and Islam. ... tomb is considered one of the three holiest sites of Judaism. It was mentioned by the early Christians as one of the major ...
Natalia Klimczak - 17/01/2017 - 03:44
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Who Was Zoroaster and How Did He Gain Religious Followers?
... have been compared to those of the Abrahamic faiths, i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and it has been suggested that the former had ... The BBC, 2014. Zoroaster. [Online] Available at: ...
dhwty - 10/03/2017 - 01:58
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Surprising Discovery that Ashkenazi Jews Descend from Europeans
... population originates from local Europeans who converted to Judaism, said study co-author Martin Richards, an archaeogeneticist at the ... In the early years of the Diaspora, it seems that Judaism took in many converts from amongst the European population, but they ...
aprilholloway - 10/10/2013 - 00:21
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Where are Ashkenazi Jews from? Their Origins May Surprise You
... European Jews descend from local people who converted to Judaism, not individuals who left Israel and the Middle East around 2,000 years ... It appears that the majority of the European converts to Judaism during the early years of the Diaspora were women. That helps explain ...
aprilholloway - 19/04/2018 - 22:55
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One God Versus Many - The Plurality is in the Pronoun (Part 1)
... meaning ‘god’. Rabbi Tovia Singer, director of Outreach Judaism, explains this use according to Hebrew tradition. “The word ... references in this manner, it is obvious the followers of Judaism, the religion in whose scripture the verses originally appear, do not ...
beth - 23/05/2013 - 11:35
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The End of The World is Here if Snake Appearing in Israel's Western Wall is Symbolic of Ancient Biblical Prophecy
... location has been venerated as one of the holiest sites in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alike. The Jewish Voice reported in ... two temples.” Tisha B’Av is an annual fast day in Judaism and it is held as being the saddest day in the Jewish calendar where ...
ancient-origins - 03/11/2018 - 22:13
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Legends, Mysteries, Light and Darkness: The Secret History of the Biblical Cave of the Patriarchs
... on the site which was strongly related to Hellenistic Judaism. It was an enclosure that had a secret entrance (which still hasn’t ... available at: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/machpelah.html Inside the Caves of Machpela by Noam Arnon, ...
Natalia Klimczak - 11/01/2017 - 03:55
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Archaeologists Discover that Earliest Known Arabic Writing Was Penned by a Christian
... elites of the kingdom of Himyar converted to some form of Judaism. By the 4th century, Himyar had become an important player in the ... Christians that were martyred as they refused to convert to Judaism. The researchers believe that the Christians choice of the early ...
Sam Bostrom - 21/03/2016 - 23:51
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