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- Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:42 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Women of the Wall
- Replies: 28
- Views: 47718
Re: Women of the Wall
According to Jewish tradition, the Oral Torah was passed down orally in an unbroken chain from generation to generation until its contents were finally committed to writing following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, when Jewish civilization was faced with an existential threat.[1][cla...
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 6:45 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Women of the Wall
- Replies: 28
- Views: 47718
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 4:35 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Women of the Wall
- Replies: 28
- Views: 47718
Re: Women of the Wall
The answer is not to replace one religious institution with some other religious institution but to effect the separation of church and state wherein bullies and thugs get arrested for engaging in acts of bullying and thuggery - and I say this as someone whose wife has davened with Women of the Wall...
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 6:23 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: LXX
- Replies: 12
- Views: 28087
Re: LXX
How accurate was this translation? How can someone answer this without knowing the Vorlage ? True, however the Hexapla is a clue that perhaps some people found issues with the LXX ... With all due respect, that is an entirely different issue. Without access to the Vorlage there is little basis for ...
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:11 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: LXX
- Replies: 12
- Views: 28087
- Sat Jan 26, 2019 2:44 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: In the beginning, God separated?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 34516
Re: In the beginning, God separated?
There's a lesson here ...lpetrich wrote: ↑Sat Jan 26, 2019 12:58 pm I was using Tanach (JPS): Genesis: Genesis Chapter 1 from 1917. ...
- Sat Jan 26, 2019 6:35 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: In the beginning, God separated?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 34516
- Fri Jan 25, 2019 1:41 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: In the beginning, God separated?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 34516
Re: In the beginning, God separated?
The score: JPS: standalone Chabad, Alter, Fox, Friedman: adverbial clause :banghead: The JPS TORAH COMMENTARY: GENESIS The Traditional Hebrew Text with the New JPS Translation Commentary by NAHUM M. SARNA The Jewish Publication Society 5749/1989 When God began to create Heaven and earth -- the eart...
- Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:05 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: God versus Gods: THE BOOK
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10029
Re: God versus Gods: THE BOOK
I wasn't aware that the posting of advertisements was deemed appropriate. FWIW, I find it tacky.
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:43 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: In the beginning, God separated?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 34516
Re: In the beginning, God separated?
The JPS translations used in the Reform and Conservative synagogues in the US, the translation found in the online Chabad Tanakh, and the translations offered by Robert Alter, Everett Fox, and Richard Elliott Friedman, all treat בְּרֵשִׁית בָּרָא as being in the construct state. Genesis 1:1 as a st...