MYSTICISM, JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN

Rabbinization and the Making of Early Jewish Mysticism

The Christian Use of Jewish Numerology

A book called the Zohar emerged during the Middle Ages, giving rise to a Jewish form of mystical speculation known as the "Cabala" and creating strong interest in the system's mystical teachings in both Jewish and Christian circles. During the Renaissance, Pico, Reuchlin, and Ricci led in applying the Zohar's mystical teachings to the OT in defense of Christian doctrines such at that of the Tri...

P-178: Female Genital Mutilation: The Jewish, Christian and Islamic Views

Background: Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a practice involving the removal of all or parts of the female external genitalia.It has been documented in 28 African countries and in some countries in Asia and the Middle East,but due to increasing immigration from these countries to the western world,FGM has become a worldwide human rights and health issue. Materials and Methods: This paper is ...

Moslem, Christian, and Jewish Cultural Interaction in Sefardic Talmudic Interpretation

The general participation of Iberian Jewry in the scholastic culture of the high middle ages is very well known. Less well known is the continuing in uence the Aristotelian tradition had on Spanish and Sefardic Jewish intellectual life in the Ž fteenth and sixteenth centuries, including its most particularly Jewish of activities, the interpretation of the Talmud. In this period, there appears ...

raphael the angel in jewish, christian and islamic traditions

one of the important theological issues in many religions - and most importantly in abrahamic religions - is ‘angelology’, especially the recognition of ‘archangels.’ this study focuses on one of the angels called ‘raphael’ and compares his significance and duties in the three religions: judaism, christianity and islam. in addition, it is examined whether raphael equals the islamic angel ‘israf...