Sökning: "Non-Christian religions"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 36 avhandlingar innehållade orden Non-Christian religions.
16. The Message of a Mitsvah: The Mezuzah in Rabbinic Literature
Sammanfattning : The present study deals with different aspects of the mitsvat mezuzah in Rabbinic literature from the first to the sixteenth centuries, with some emphasis on the medieval sources. Through a charting of statements regarding the mezuzah as an object, and the mitsvat mezuzah and its fulfilment, an overview is given of the development of the mezuzah and the perception of it. LÄS MER
17. Judar i det svenska folkhemmet. Minne och identitet i Judisk krönika 1948-1958
Sammanfattning : The thesis deals with the queswtion of which historic events have been emphasised amog Jewish people in Sweden after the Second World War. The founding of Israel is the point of departure and the termins ad quem is ten years further. LÄS MER
18. Portrait of a Villain: Laban the Aramean in Rabbinic Literature
Sammanfattning : This study attempts to answer the question of why Laban the Aramean, a rather harmless character as presented in the biblical text, is generally portrayed in rabbinic literature as a major enemy of Jacob and Israel. It is argued that the portrait of Laban as a villain developed as a result of rabbinic hermeneutics, and that the characteristics which are attributed to him in rabbinic literature were not arbitrarily chosen due to a particular interest in his person or a wish to endow him with a certain set of negative characteristics, but rather derive from interaction between the rabbis and the biblical text in a process where the rabbis filled in the gaps that they perceived in the biblical text and explained inconsistencies with material provided by the Bible itself and by material taken from their ideological code. LÄS MER
19. Det föreställda ghettot. Ultraortodox gränsdragning och identitetskonstruktion i The Jewish Observer 1983-2002
Sammanfattning : The dissertation focuses on the Haredi (ultra-orthodox Jewish) journal The Jewish Observer, published since 1963 by Agudath Israel of America, suggesting that the publisher uses the journal as an instrument to help the readers to maintain a distinct Haredi identity in urban, non-Haredi environments and not only in their own, isolated milieu. The articles of the journal are understood as resources, aiming to help the readers to consider themselves to be members of an »imagined ghetto». LÄS MER
20. Spirit of Christ Inculturated- A Theological Theme Implicit in Shusaku Endo's Literary Works
Sammanfattning : Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) is a Roman Catholic, Japanese novelist. From 1950 to 1953, he studied French literature in Lyon, France. Returning from Lyon, Endo began his career as a novelist. His early works include: White Men, Yellow Men(1954), A Wonderful Fool(1959), The Women in the Bible(1960), Foreign Studies(1965), etc. LÄS MER