The article discusses the biblical meaning of marriage or a wedding ceremony. It presents the two major events in ancient Jewish marriages, namely, the betrothal or signing of the wedding contract and the transfer of the bride to the bridegroom's home. Among the books of the Bible that ...
In the tapestry of the wedding ceremony, the central figure draws a parallel between Esther and Margaret of York. Esther Tapestry Commissioned by Duke Philip The Bold at Museo De Tapices De La Seo Zaragoza Another tapestry in this series depicts the story of Esther and Mordecai. In this ...
We thus see that up to the time of the Ptolemies, when the Greek loose barriers of consanguinity threatened to fall among the Jewish families, the ancient Hebrews were bound only by the specific proscriptions in the Mosaic law, and that even after the prohibitions were extended by the ...
The Jewish patriarchs erected pillars and planted groves, both of which were customs connected with phallic worship. Throughout the rule of the judges, and especially after the establishment of the monarchy, the Hebrews were given to derelictions from the purer religion of their nation to the ...
He was brought before the High Priest and the Sanhedrin, the Jewish court that tries those who disobey the Torah, and charged with threatening to destroy the Temple and with blasphemy Behold the man. Bosch c1475 The Sanhedrin delivered Jesus to the Roman procurator, Pontius Pilate, on the ...
In the present day, researcher Remy Shaw becomes entangled in an elderly biographer’s quest to uncover the truth behind Marian Arnold’s mysterious life and the unsolved murders linked to an infamous serial killer. Joined by Marian’s great-great-grandson, can Remy expose the evil that lurks ...
Byline: Ruth Silverman Daily Herald CorrespondentSilverman, Ruth
An alternative reading to the dichotomous approach (“either/or”) that encompasses a theoretical and methodological range (“and/also”) might enrich our understanding of the Jewish myth and the place of women in it.5 I am not dealing with the question of the Kabbalists’ attitude toward the...