The state of being born out of lawful wedlock; in Jewish law, the state of being born of any of the marriages prohibited in the Bible and for which the punishment is excision ("karet"; Yeb. 49a; Maimonides, "Yad," Issure Biah, xv. 1). The exception to this rule is the child...
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Circumcision of Proselytes. Circumcision Necessary or Not? Circumcision Not a Sacrament. The Ceremony. Reform Judaism and Circumcision. Africa. —In Ethnography: America. Mode of Operation: Age. Accompanying Ceremonial. Object: Utilitarian Theories. An Initiation Ceremony. Anatomy of the Parts. —In ...
In the Temple. —In Rabbinical and Apocryphal Literature: The Cherubim of the Temple. Communion of Israel with God. —Critical View: Probable Source. Etymology. —Biblical Data: The name of a winged being mentioned frequently in the Bible. The prophet Ezekiel describes the cherubim as a tetra...
“A proselyte who is under the age of three years and a day is permitted to marry a priest.†1 Subsequent rabbis refer to ben Yohai’s endorsement of pedophilia as “halakah,†or binding Jewish law. 2 Has ben Yohai, child rape advocate, been...
Jesus Christ HISTORICALY came to the Jews “First” and the apostles preached to the Jews “First.” But since the apostolic days moved into the preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles by St Peter to Cornelius and ST Paul to the Roman proselytes and all pagans, the Gospel is primarily for ...
Philo is critical both of those who took the Bible too literally and thus encountered theological difficulties, particularly anthropomorphisms (i.e., describing God in terms of human characteristics), and those who went to excesses in their allegorical interpretation of the laws, with the resulting...
Then the Jewish exiles and the proselytes who had abandoned their pagan nations to follow the Eternal God of Israel wholeheartedly ate the Passover feast. 22 For the next seven days, they all joyously participated in the Feast of Unleavened Bread because the Eternal had given them a reason ...
Adherents of both religions are called incomplete proselytes (4:11), since they adoptsome of the beliefs ofJudaism but continue to maintain pagan practices,such astheir adoration of‘the wood and the stone’of Deuteronomy28:36,namely thecross of Christianity and the black stone of theKaaba of...
nor even proselytes, in the synagogue. This has seemed so singular that efforts have been made to impose another sense on the words, or to suppose that the notice of Greeks, as well as Jews, believing is loosely appended to the statement of the preaching in the synagogue, omitting notice...