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    Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of rabbinic writings throughout Jewish history. However, the term often refers specifically...
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    Dudael is reminiscent of the rabbinic terminology used for the designation of the ravine of the scapegoat in later rabbinic interpretations of the Yom Kippur...
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    "Index to Brown, Driver and Briggs Hebrew Lexicon". Journal of Biblical Literature. 97 (1): 108. doi:10.2307/3265844. ISSN 0021-9231. JSTOR 3265844. Suchard...
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    " The Rabbi responds "No, I do not deny it." Allusions in Jewish rabbinic literature to Isaiah contain various expansions, elaborations and inferences...
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    priestly gifts that the Children of Israel gave them. In medieval rabbinic literature, there were efforts to justify the killing, not merely of Shechem...
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    Discussions in rabbinic literature of the biblical character Moses, who led the Israelites out of Egypt and through their wanderings in the wilderness...
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    granddaughter, and thus "sister" can be used regarding a niece. The fifth-century rabbinic midrash Genesis Rabbah dedicates a large amount of attention to Sarah in...
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    Allusions in rabbinic literature to the Biblical character Job, the object of sufferings and tribulations in the Book of Job, contain various expansions...
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    Gedaliah, with the other chapters added later (p. 160). In Jewish rabbinic literature, especially the aggadah, Jeremiah and Moses are often mentioned together...
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    write it down in the form of the Talmud and other rabbinic texts for the sake of preservation. Rabbinic Judaism contrasts with the Sadducees, Karaite Judaism...
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    framework invented in order to be able to insert much older poems. In rabbinic literature Balaam is represented as one of seven gentile prophets; the other...
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    Bathsheba (/bæθˈʃiːbə/ or /ˈbæθʃɪbə/; Hebrew: בַּת־שֶׁבַע, Baṯ-šeḇaʿ, Bat-Sheva or Batsheva, "daughter of Sheba" or "daughter of the oath") was the wife...
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  • Mitzvah (redirect from Rabbinic law)
    dispute and uncertain. The number 613 is a rabbinical tradition rather than an exact count. In rabbinic literature there are a number of works, mainly by...
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    Commandments (1956) and Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). Harun Moses in rabbinic literature Y-chromosomal Aaron Hebrew: אַהֲרֹן, romanized: ʾAhărōn; Arabic:...
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    Allusions in rabbinic literature to the Biblical character Noah, who saved his family and representatives of all the animals from a great flood by constructing...
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  • law would be cut off from God's people, which punishment, according to rabbinic interpretation, is inflicted on that person by God himself. Moreover, the...
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    transferring Naaman's leprosy to him and his descendants forever. In Rabbinic literature, Gehazi is identified as one of the four commoners who forfeited...
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    While the Talmud holds to that interpretation, some sources in Rabbinic literature insists that she was an "innkeeper," based on Targum Jonathan and...
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    and his Plot. Rabbinical literature commentary equates the Baʿal-zəvuv of Ekron as lord of the "fly". The word Baʿal-zəvuv in rabbinical texts is a mockery...
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  • forgiven by God or another person. Various works of classical Jewish rabbinic literature are thought to contain references to Jesus, including some uncensored...
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  • According to Rabbinic Judaism, the Oral Torah or Oral Law (Hebrew: תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל־פֶּה‎, romanized: Tōrā šebbəʿal-pe) are statutes and legal interpretations...
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  • supernatural beings that appear throughout The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), rabbinic literature, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, and traditional Jewish liturgy as...
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    weight to what were then recent digs at Hazor by Yigael Yadin. In rabbinic literature Joshua is regarded as a faithful, humble, deserving, wise man. Biblical...
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    Yeshiva (redirect from Rabbinical academy)
    traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish...
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  • coerced condition. In this sense, "kosher" is the rabbinic legal term applied to a Jew who adheres to rabbinic tradition and is accordingly not subject to any...
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    Wojciech (2018). "A Tale of Two Sisters: The Image of Eve in Early Rabbinic Literature and Its Influence on the Portrayal of Lilith in the Alphabet of Ben...
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  • shekhinah/shekhinta is extremely common in rabbinic literature and the targums, no occurrence of it is attested in pre-rabbinic literature. S. G. F. Brandon, ed., Dictionary...
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    proselyte and former prostitute Rahab. Some statements found in rabbinic literature posit that Ezekiel was the son of Jeremiah, who was (also) called...
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    He appears in numerous stories and references in the Haggadah and rabbinic literature, including the Babylonian Talmud. According to some Jewish interpretations...
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    mother of Jacob and Esau, and the granddaughter of Bethuel, and rabbinic literature goes even further, with the Book of Jasher claiming Leah and Rachel...
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