popular belief is not necessarily congruent with canonical interpretation. Any practice with a spiritual basis has religious meaning to its practitioners (Orsi2003). Also, distinctions among spheres of human activity such as religion, sexuality, culture,...
The Hebrew root nsq is so clearly attested in the meaning "to kiss" that scholars have assumed this sense in all passages where the root occurs, even when the notion of kissing is in no way germane to the context.2 Gen. xli 40, Prov. xxiv 26 andJob xxxi 27 are three such examples...
produce AlePh - the full spelling of the first letter of the Hebrew alephbet. This operation is fundamental to the qabalah of Liber AL - a fact that is emphasised by the gematria of the English title of the book. It is called The Book of the Law and is named as such in several plac...