When the Trojans discovered that the Greeks were gone, believing the war was over, they “joyfully dragged the horse inside the city“. The soldiers from inside the horse emerged and killed the Trojan guards and opened the gates. The Greeks entered the city and killed the sleeping population....
century.Misled doubtless by the tendency to desertion shown by not a few of the Sephardim many evangelicals anticipated the conversion en masse of the Jewish population, and on the initiative of Lewis Way the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity Among the Jews was founded in 1807....
Egypt had constantly a large Semitic element of population, especially along the eastern frontier of the Delta (comp. Isa. xix. 18 on five cities speaking the language of Canaan). The Egyptian cities mentioned in the Bible all belong to this part of the country. No (Thebes) and Syene sho...
In many years of reading hasidic literature, from theoretical mystical tracts to tales and hagiographies, I have never encountered anything remotely like this image of a rebbe testing the thickness of stockings on his own arm, let alone naming a line of women's undergarments after himself. Was...
population. And this was a plan that was being sold by a retired Israeli general, Giora Eiland, on Israeli TV for months before. And the idea is to force the entire population out through military action and through starvation, through depriving the population of food and water. And much ...
In 1900 the Jewish population of Antwerp was 8,000. At the large synagogue the old Amsterdam Portuguese minhag is followed; but during the exodus of the Russian Jews in the years following 1881 several thousands of them settled in Antwerp, and there erected a number of synagogues and meeting...
Philo expressly states ("De Legatione ad Caium," § 20) that the large population of Alexandria had many synagogues in various quarters of the city, and he says also (ib.) that when the Alexandrian synagogues were destroyed the same fate was shared by the shields, golden wreaths, stel...
The contemporary Jewish population is subdivided into three discrete groups based on their long-term location of residence: Middle Eastern (also known as Oriental) Jews, Sephardic Jews and Ashkenazi Jews (AJ). The latter group, which inhabited northern and eastern Europe since the 9th century C....
The contexts in the Russian State Catalogue are very much about the Yiddish speaking population of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, using “the language of the Jewish street,”35 while the contexts of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are very much about Jewish identity as a part of ...
Because the Vγ6/Vδ1+ population responds during inflammation, the inventors have postulated that the ligand for the Vγ6/Vδ1 TCR is a host-produced molecule induced on the surface of some cells in response to inflammatory signals. Therefore, it was thought that it might be possible to ...