Browsing by Subject "Judaism"

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    • An exploration of humanistic Judaism and its quest to retain Jewish culture and tradition 

      Dos Santos Neto, Fortunato Moreira (North-West University, 2019)
      This research evaluates, from a historical perspective, the doctrine and ethics of the new movement known as Humanistic Judaism, which was founded in America in 1963 by Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine (1928 — 2007). The thesis ...

    • Heroes and Villains in 2 Maccabees 8:1-36: a rhetorical analysis 

      Coetzer, Eugene (The Old Testament Society of Southern Africa (OTSSA), 2016)
      In recent years, scholarly contributions to the study of 2 Maccabees have shifted towards a focus on larger themes and rhetorical elements. This, in turn, allowed for a deeper understanding of the narrative aim and the ...

    • Matthew’s Sitz im Leben and the emphasis on the Torah 

      Viljoen, Francois Petrus (Fakulteit Teologie, Universiteit van die Vrystaat, 2012)
      The role of the Torah is the subject of a full scale discussion in the first Gospel. This article investigates the socio-historical setting that produced this text with such an emphasis on Torah observance. To address these ...

    • Paul and ethnicity : a socio-historical study of Romans 

      Mbevi, Misheck Mutua (2013)
      Despite the fact that the majority of scholars agree that Paul’s letter to the Romans was written to address the Judean-Gentile ethnic divide in Rome, there is still a continued failure to follow through with the avenues ...

    • Religion andmemory: the importance of monuments in preserving historical identity 

      Kirsch, Jutta Ulrike (North-West University (South-Africa), 2020)
      This piece of work describes how negative historical events have influenced history to date through commemoration and remembrance. This study takes a text-based approach to research and uses the grounded theory approach ...

    • The Matthean community within a Jewish religious society 

      Viljoen, Francois (AOSIS, 2016)
      It is argued that the Matthean Gospel partially reflects the unstable political and religious situation in which this document originated. Broad outlines are postulated of this probable religious situation. This article ...