I have never been observant but, if I understand correctly, the basic definition of a Jew is that your mother is Jewish. That’s certainly true in my case. I have never renounced Judaism, but if it’s automatic that when you profess Christianity you’re no longer a Jew, then I’...
I suppose I wasn't very clear in my original definition. What I was trying to say was that YHWH was sort of a "symbol" for the written page to stand for the name of God, but that the point was that it couldn't really be written - and since it wasn't a real word, then the ...
Meaning, definition and translation of a word are not the same: “father, grandfather, ancestor, forefather, begetter” are all possible translations of the Hebrew word /av/, they are not meanings, they are English words which have meaning. Each of the meanings of the English words (and ...
> doesn't -- unless you believe that the narrator of the passage is an > eye-witness giving a play-by-play description of a particular woman's > actions. You agree that the passage is gnomic, and by definition a gnomic > utterance is timeless. It's the difference between "The eagle...
definition, and then to see how the information gleaned might inform this debate. We will do this first and foremost by comparing the creation of the sky in Genesis 1 with the creation of the other two ‘cosmic regions,’ namely the creation ofthe earth and the seaswhich occurred on day...
doesn't -- unless you believe that the narrator of the passage is an eye-witness giving a play-by-play description of a particular woman's actions. You agree that the passage is gnomic, and by definition a gnomic utterance is timeless. It's the difference between "The eagle is circling...
Definition: Sin Comments (0) And everyone that practices sin, perpetrates iniquity; for all sin is iniquity. (1 John 3:4AENTpg. 654). “…all sin is iniquity.” Sin and iniquity are equivalent according to the “New Testament,” more aptly called the Renewed Covenant. But what is iniqu...
Of course, it’s theorisinig, only a study of first references would show the main source. The definition ‘having friends in high places’ has a down-top shade of meaning, but protektsiya, to me, implies a top-down patronage. Bathrobe says November 30, 2010 at 5:29 am borrowings...
and no fear of death. All these aspects are embodied by the Gandhian Daniel. Gandhi emphasized the active role of Daniel as a resister, not the traditional view of the victim of court intrigues. In this paper, I argue that the image of the idealsatyagrahiDaniel could be strengthened by ...
+ + The value of a key-value pair in the 'attrs' map can be a + string, a list of strings, a regular expression object, or a + callable that takes a string and returns whether or not the + string matches for some custom definition of 'matches'. The + same is true of the tag...