Sentences with phrase «jewish religious culture»

I think cultural diversity was built into the Christian faith with that first great decision by the Council in Jerusalem, recorded in Acts 15, which declared that the new gentile Christians didn't have to enter Jewish religious culture.

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The Conference examined the way sacred music has evolved in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, its different modes of expression, its contribution to deepening religious experience, and its place in wider musical and general culture of the three faith traditions.

The religious rules in first - century Jewish culture didn't make life better — they made it more difficult.

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

Ginzberg argued that the religious life of the Jewish people was a product of the medieval dispersion of the Jews from their ancestral homeland, and that a renaissance of the Jews in the land of Israel could make possible the revival of a national secular culture that would revolve around Hebrew language.

Indeed, though many believers would believe that Jewish monotheism sprang into existence as is, the truth apppears to be that they went through a religious evolution much like the other cultures around them.

The Dead Sea scrolls reveal in greater detail the Jewish culture of the period and the Jewish religious framework within which Christianity arose.

I'm not Jewish myself, so I'm very naive to the culture and their religious practices, and found it a interesting insight to a, I'm sure, small portion of what it may be like to be of Jewish faith.

To conform to its charter, which prohibits the teaching of religion, the school is free of Hebrew's Jewish religious and ethnic associations, and instead focuses on the secular Hebrew culture of Israel.

He chronicles the broader political and religious tensions in the area (it would be impossible not to) but also focuses on the day - to - day nature of acclimating to a new city and culture, depicting the madcap adventures of getting the kids to and from school, the endless search for a good playground, and the difficulty of keeping the schedule straight of which days Jewish, Muslim, or Christian shops are open.

Our reviewer writes, «Though the reader gets a taste of what the Iranian Jewish community was like, this is really a novel about the culture of women, from the ritual baths and other religious traditions to the gardens and distinctly gendered spaces of the home.»

The city is known as the city of three cultures due to the presence of Christian, Arab and Jewish communities and their respective religious sites.

The Jewish art and life wing is dedicated to the history, traditions, culture, private and public life of the Jewish people across the centuries, the exhibition is composed of everyday objects, artworks, tapestries, clothes, manuscripts and religious objects.