...-publication-reuse-rights ) organ Jewish culture iconography Jewish scripture Italy Prague synagogue music Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno Judah ben Joseph Moscato Abraham ben David Portaleone The early history of the organ in Jewish culture is subject to much speculation that unfolded with literary...

... canon and the textual characteristics of its components. It then considers the way in which the Qumran literature ‘extends’ scripture through rewriting and interpretation, and the broader issues raised by the Scrolls about the nature and function of the Jewish scriptures. Bibliography Campbell, J. G...

...This chapter provides an overview of certain core ideas regarding scripture that almost all Jewish groups have assumed for the past two thousand years. These ideas differentiate Jewish conceptions of scripture from Christian ones in fundamental ways. All twenty-four books of Jewish scripture...

... of the synagogue Bible. The chapter explains how the majority of Jews have encountered scripture primarily in synagogue—this sociological reality has important implications in understanding the Jewish scripture. If one is interested in scripture as a category of text that helps to shape a community's self...

... Israelite Sifre Deuteronomy 1 Kings aggadah and aggadic interpretations halakhah and halakhot Meir rabbi sola scriptura scripture alone Rabbinic Judaism Torah Written Torah Oral Torah Jewish scripture Jewish society cultural permanence plasticity If at the center of Judaism is “the book...

... economy secularism Logos as God reform Bible Qur'an Jewish scripture scriptural hermeneutics Islamic civilization Christianity Judaism Union for the Mediterranean Nikolas Sarkozy Since 1989, that is, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the ways in which we think...