PURPOSE This article challenges popular conceptions of the nature of ethnicity and religiousness in the gerontological literature. Using the example of older Jewish Americans, the authors argue for more nuanced definitions and usage of terms such as "religion" and "ethnicity" in order to begin to understand the complex interweaving of these two dimensions in the lives of older persons. DESIGN...

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...

This article is a piece of microhistorical research court case investigating religious conversion in Russia the 1820s. It presents story an Orthodox Christian girl who adopted ”Jewish law” and married Jewish man. The attempts to define background peculiarities clarify context which this was taking place. work uses various methods: narrative, comparative, contextual analysis, text interpretation...

An Image of an Uprooted Woman in New Hebrew Prose on the Basis Short Stories by Isaac Dov Berkowitz The uprooted hero is one leading themes prose at turn nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also occupies a central place stories Berkowitz. uproot metaphor reflects hero’s alienation many aspects life. In broader sense, it reaction to sense suspension between traditions their ancestors progress...

Today it is commonplace for historical Jesus scholars to emphasize Jesus’ Jewishness. at the same time most new Testament scholars deny that he cared about the Jewish purity system, which was a central aspect of early Judaism. This article examines how such a reconstruction of the historical Jesus would influence his Jewishness, arguing that it indeed would make such a Jesus figure ‘less Jewish...

Modern secular bioethics has focused on developing a set of universal principles to guide clinical decision making. However, this ignores the important role of religion in resolving bioethical questions. It is imperative that health-care providers understand these belief systems in order to traverse value conflicts and provide the highest quality care to a diverse population. This paper focuses...

This article highlights the important initial tasks of excavating the pertinent contexts of the sixteenth-century Protestant reformers and discerning what is at stake for them (i.e., “unearthing logic”) in order to analyze their views of and teachings about Jews and Judaism. Pertinent contexts include the immediate contexts to which Luther and Calvin responded (e.g., Jewish “blasphemy” and/or C...