Sentences with phrase «jewish religious texts»

Life revolves around strict adherence to Jewish law, prayer, and the study of Jewish religious texts.

This isn't the Old Testament prehistory we've seen before — Aronofsky draws from both Christian and Jewish religious texts to fill out the story (which is actually quite short in the Bible) and offers bleak, poisoned world before the flood quite different from the Mediterranean deserts and forests of previous films — and it accomplishes something quite powerful, vivid and unexpected as a result.

I also have a copy of Jewish religious texts, Islamic texts and a few other faiths texts and can speak intelligently with the devout of any of them and have done so.

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The interpretation from many Jewish Scholars and religious texts is that it means «Chosen to Serve God» not better than anyone else.

Since the publication of this text, Hitchens has traveled the country debating a series of religious thinkers — Christian, Muslim and Jewish — meeting them with an extremely swift mind and wickedly barbed tongue.

To many of the jewish faith, the Christians hijacked part of their religious writings and applied their own interpretations, often own «translations» which in parts are different from older texts (that Christianity did not control).

Yeshiva is an Orthodox Jewish university that includes a focus on the study of traditional religious texts, mainly the Torah and the Talmud.

In this case, the Jewish rabbinic tradition constructed a categorical and non-falsifiable religious law that these texts about the Canaanites could be used only in just wars or in self - defense.

Some of these include the tenth - century Book of Deer, which is probably the oldest surviving Scottish manuscript and contains the earliest known examples of written Gaelic; the thirteenth - century Life of Edward the Confessor, which contains masterpieces of illumination; the Cairo Genizah collections, which are glimpses into the everyday live of a Jewish community in Egypt over a period of 1,000 years; digital versions of its Islamic and Sanskrit collections of both secular and religious texts, including some of the earliest surviving Qur» ans; the Nash Papyrus, which contains one of the oldest texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Codex Bezzae, one of the most important New Testament manuscripts; and others.

In traditional Jewish texts 613 rules for ethical and religious behavior are asked of all Jews.