Sentences with phrase «jewish practices functioned»

Circumcision, dietary laws, and other Jewish practices functioned as «boundary markers,» and Paul insisted that such badges of Jewishness were now relativized to a common identity in Christ.

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Peoplehood functioned not only as a way of perpetuating Jewish children but as a placeholder and a worldview that upheld and solidified the core movements, institutions, and practices of twentieth century American Jewry.

The city episcopate is well on the way to monopolizing the rite of the imposition: of hands in ordination, a practice once associated with both pagan teachers and Jewish elders and rabbis and by now projected into apostolic times as the unique function of the apostles qua bishops.

He consulted with eight experts, plus author Alderman, on the practices and attitudes of an Orthodox Jewish community, how it functions, and how it protects itself against the outside world.