Sentences with word «rabbinic»

Birds in the branches of a tree, for example, are used in rabbinic literature as a symbol of Gentiles who in the last days will seek shelter in the shade of Israel.

Some things we learn from a study of rabbinic traditions will help us, and source criticism is a starting - point for the attempt to write a history of the tradition so integral to the form - critical method.

I read this book, not primarily because I was interested in finding out how the Jewish Rabbinic tradition developed, but to learn what I could about how the Christian scholarly / church tradition is developing.

After centuries of rabbinic teaching on immortality, Jewish faith in messianism, and Christian witness to the resurrection, it is hard to pull the screen back down to cloud the future as the Psalms did.

Does some of the horror of the story come from the perception that Isaac is a child and not 25 + as rabbinic tradition holds?

Jesus» teaching is oriented in a direction which differentiates it from rabbinic Judaism.

It is as Rashi put it (Rabbi Solomon bar Isaac, that magnificent rabbinic scholar of the eleventh century), «Thou gavest them place to depart from thee, and in thy hand it is to establish their heart toward thee.»

Then again, you don't understand Torahnic law and interpretation procedures being used in rabbinic studies — which again I will let people know the disciples and Paul were clearly involved in (or the writer's of the texts).

Khazars have rabbis too but are not Rabbinic Jews.

He founds his argument on two OT passages to which he brings all the skill of expert Jewish rabbinic exegesis.

There is some difference of opinion among scholars as to whether stories found in rabbinic writings before the time of Jesus constitute parables, but no less an authority than Joachim Jeremias makes this positive statement, «Jesus» parables are something entirely new.

A famous rabbinic saying implies that every word in Judaism's sacred texts can be understood in 70 correct (but related) ways.

Instead of seeing such traditional readings as naïve or simply wrong, interpreters now ask about the assumptions and values that govern the reading practices of Christian typological and allegorical exegesis and of Rabbinic midrash.

He differed from other contemporary rabbinic authorities not only in the breadth and depth of his intellectual life, but also in his willingness to reveal his interests to the public.

That said, over my years of learning in rabbinic school, I've come to feel a deeper connection with Jews of all denominations.

Two traditions governed rabbinic thought and Scriptural commentary there - the schools of Hillel and Simon.

Since all modern Judaism grows out of ancient rabbinic Judaism, the implications of claims like these are clear.

The ancient rabbinic texts uncovered several vices that justified their punishment: A tower intended to reach heaven manifests the ambition to challenge God, the desire to «make for ourselves a name» expresses the sin of pride, and so....

The doctrinal differences between Rabbinic Judaism and Messianic Judaism stem from the initial antagonism between the founders of the two schools of thought on YHWH.

Carmy's analysis draws on traditional rabbinic sources — and Bob Dylan.

A group of ten Jewish rabbinic students (from across the denominations) and a group of ten emerging Muslim leaders spent three days together on retreat.

Although we chose those passages at random, no amount of searching the literature would produce an apocalyptic or rabbinic statement on this theme with such vividness and brevity; in these respects Matt.

Although it is repeatedly cited as a «Rabbinic legend» or a «midrash,» it is not recorded in any ancient Jewish text.

Evans attempted to enhance Protestantism's respect for Judaism by showing that the elder tradition, as represented by certain rabbinic parables, is, like Christianity, a...

In the Catholic tradition, we see that same rabbinic role as the duty and responsibility of priests.

All of our organic dairy products are certified kosher by the Orthodox Rabbinic Certifiers of San Francisco, a division of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of San Francisco.

To summarize: we see that in a period of 150 or so years Judaism produced five major hypertrophies, each of which has legitimate connections with rabbinic or even biblical Judaism.

The schedule has been dominated by topics such as rabbinic theology, the Holocaust, modern anti-Semitism, gentilization of Messianic Judaism, Messianic congregations, Messianic communities, and Messianic Jewish history.

He does read the words standing up, but then in good rabbinic fashion he sits down to teach.

It's a Midrashic way of reading scripture — a Talmudic form of reasoning — that was dominant in rabbinic times, but interrupted by modernity.»

But the obligation to a purely formal authority which must be blindly obeyed receives from Jesus a transformation which goes beyond anything known to us in contemporary rabbinic criticism.

Or as one early rabbinic source puts it even more bluntly: «There are matters written in the Torah which even if they had not been written there, reason would have required that they be written.»

From this perspective, there is no reason why the ten rabbinic martyrs of the Yom Kippur service should not be included.

A real conundrum I find with Christians of various theological persuasions is that they harp on how we must be engaged in studying the Bible, how the Bible is our guide in life, and hold the Bible on a pedestal, much like rabbinic Jews hold the Torah or Catholic hold up their Eucharist, but when it comes to the nitty - gritty of how they have come to know God, no matter how they explain it, it ends up being on the basis of experience.