Word: hebrewism
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...number of historians, however, have proposed detailed theories that minimize Jewish involvement -- including that of the Jewish religious leadership. Ellis Rivkin of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, contends that real religious courts were separate from the Sanhedrin, the council of Jewish functionaries that dealt with Jesus after his arrest. He depicts the Sanhedrin as a political body that collaborated with the Roman occupation forces and lacked any religious legitimacy. "Neither ((Jesus')) religious teachings nor his beliefs could have been on trial -- only their political consequences," says Rivkin. In his book, though, Brown sifts the ancient documents, Jewish and pagan...
...fifty people who are of various nationalities and all under thirty , upon the suggestion an Australian friend, Devora whom she knows there. The kibbutzniks have build up a community based on egalitarian collective effort and who arrived together on a pre-determined date, to live, work and study Hebrew. They must bend the rules to take her in. And they do, for that is the type of woman Chernin is, or was, at least: someone for whom the rules are ignored...
...Learn the Hebrew language no matter where youare," he implored Jewish students in the audience."To maintain the language is, in modern terms, aJewish commitment...
Teaching Assistant in Modern Hebrew Rina Winkelman taught her class all the Hebrew words for love yesterday...
...actually had some vague impression--erroneous, it seems--that the Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel is Jewish. Since the question of whether he is or is not Jewish was, however, of no moment I never asked. What I did know is that Stager had studied at the Hebrew University and that he had been favored in the assignment of sites to excavate by Israeli archaeological authorities who wouldn't have so favored him if he were anti-Semitic. Or, to quote Cross' strange characterization, Stager's "whole history is philo-Judaic...