israʾiliyyat or traditions of jewish origin: a major instance of transferred traditions

Israʾiliyyat or Traditions of Jewish Origin: A Major Instance of Transferred Traditions

One of the recent inquiries in the field of hadith studies is the investigation of transferred traditions and their causes and impacts on Shi‘i hadith circles. By exploring some traditions in the hadith collection of al-Shaykh al-Saduq and comparing the textual similarities and also the chain of transmitters, this research attempts to show that traditions of Jewish origin in the Shi‘i hadith ci...

Hemophilia in Jewish Traditions and Genomes

Over the past century, the congruency between the modern description of hemophilia and a hereditary coagulation disorder described in the Talmud has been widely noted. Examination of the Talmudic text suggests that: 1. The disease described there closely resembles the modern characterization of classic hemophilia. 2. The hereditary pattern described is consistent with the distinctive inheritanc...

Meal serves up Jewish traditions Students of all

MAC is back. Two weeks after the S tudent Senate voted down an am en d ­ ment to grant perm anent status to the ad hoc M inority Affairs committee, senators approved a revised am endm ent W ednesday that established the group consti­ tutionally as the Committee on Multicultural Affairs. By also re n a m in g th e Committee on Diversity Affairs as the Committee on Social Concerns and delineating...

Sporting Traditions

This book represents a delightful collection of essays on Welsh sport, in particular the Welsh sport of rugby union football and its place in Welsh society. Gareth Williams has provided sports historians with some of the best accounts of sport in the Principality over the years and 1905 And All That is no exception. Avid readers of sports history will recognise some of the articles, however, si...

Exploring traditions

After the boom of pharmacological research during the 1950s, mainly as a result of the screening technique, the identification of active molecules, their reshaping by means of pharmaco-chemical drug design, and the creation of extremely efficacious and successful medicines, the pharmaceutical world sought a new source of inspiration. Such biota as the tropical forest, a quantity of plants credi...

Cloning: a Jewish law perspective with a comparative study of other Abrahamic traditions.