by hadassah | Jul 29, 2008 | The Parts of the Whole
Overview The Parts of the Whole, Christine Hayes, Open Yale Courses (Transcription), 2006. Primary sources Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra 14b-15a- The Order of Scripture Mishnah Yadayim 3-5- The Debate Over the Biblical Canon Tosefta Yadayim 2-14- The Biblical Canon and...
by hadassah | Jul 21, 2008 | The Parts of the Whole
The Jews emerged quietly from the early confines of recorded history, over three thousand five hundred years ago. As a small family, the first Jews emigrated from Mesopotamia to Israel many centuries before Buddha spoke half a continent away, and hundreds of years...
by hadassah | Jul 15, 2008 | The Parts of the Whole
Marc Zvi Brettler, Adele Berlin. The Jewish Study Bible. Oxford Unviersity Press, 2003. Marc Zvi Brettler. How to Read the Bible. Philadelphia- Jewish Publication Society. 2005. David Noel Freedman. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Doubleday, 1992. John J. Collins....
by hadassah | Jul 2, 2008 | The Parts of the Whole
Judaism is fundamentally a revealed religion. It is based on the belief that God revealed Himself to the Jewish people through the agency of Moses. For this reason, its development, both in the biblical period and beyond, can be understood only in terms of a reshaping...
by hadassah | Jul 2, 2008 | The Parts of the Whole
PART ONE- TORAH (Instruction, Teaching) Genesis- Chapters 1-11 relate God’s creation of the world and the first humans, the stories of Adam, Eve Cain and Abel, the flood, the tower of Babel, and the invention of various human arts and industries. Chapters l2-50...
by hadassah | Jul 2, 2008 | The Parts of the Whole
You don’t need me to tell you that human civilization is very, very old. Nevertheless, our knowledge of the earliest stages of human civilization was quite limited for many centuries. That is, until the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth and...
