scholarly journals Tarnovo Church Council in 1360 and the Bulgarian-Jewish Religious Conflict from 1350ies

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Hristo Saldzhiev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Christian Population ◽  
Local Jewish Community

The article focuses on problems relating to the Jewish community’s origin in medieval Tarnovo, the reasons that provoked the Bulgarian-Jewish conflict from the 1350ies and its aftermaths. The hypothesis that Tarnovo Jews originated from Byzantine and appeared in medieval Bulgarian capital at the end of the 12th century as manufacturers of silk is proposed. The religious clash from the 1350ies is ascribed to the influence exerted by some Talmudic anti-Christian texts on the local Jewish community, to the broken inner status-quo between Christians and Jews after the second marriage of the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Alexander and to the reactions of part of the Christian population against the breach of this status-quo.

scholarly journals Jesus-Believing Jews in Australia: Celebrate Messiah as a Case Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dvir Abramovich
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Messianic Judaism ◽  
Local Jewish Community

This article is the first to examine the messianic Jewish movement, or Jesus-believing Jews, in Australia. It focuses on the Celebrate Messiah organization and its transplanted messianic congregation Beit Hamashiach in Melbourne, Australia. Discussed are Celebrate Messiah's efforts in spreading its message among the Jewish people, and its strained relationship with the local Jewish community. In addition, the essay offers a wide-ranging mapping of the historical emergence of Messianic Judaism, its basic tenets, growth in Israel, as well as the attendant controversy it has generated.

scholarly journals Bloody, Intense, and Durable

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-80
Author(s):  
Tomas Lindgren ◽  
Hannes Sonnenschein
Keyword(s):  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Negotiated Settlements ◽  
Islam And Christianity ◽  
Current Systems

A growing number of scholars argues that we are witnessing a resurgenceof religion in world politics, accompanied by an increasein religiously inspired conflict. Empirical studies demonstrate thatreligious conflicts are more violent, more intense, more durable, andmore difficult to resolve through negotiated settlements than theirsecular counterparts. In this paper, we argue that these conclusionsare unreliable, because they fail to provide convincing criteria forseparating religious conflicts from non-religious ones. Our mainconcern is with the categorization problem. What characteristics orfactors make a conflict party, conflict issue, or identity religious, andwhat characteristics or factors frame a conflict party, conflict issue,or identity as non-religious? A basic assumption behind much of thisresearch is the contested idea that religion is a universal phenomenonembodied in various forms such as Islam and Christianity. The majorityof scholars simply assume a sharp division between religion andthe secular without problematizing or justifying such a distinction. Inthis article, we argue that religious conflict is an ideologically chargedconcept, and that the study of the religion-conflict nexus reinforcesthe neoliberal status quo and current systems of power.

Uruguay’s Stance on the Palestinian Problem at the United Nations and the Creation of the State of Israel

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-41
Author(s):  
Fernando Adrover Orellano
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
Political Groups ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Local Jewish Community

Examination of documents on the decision-making process that accounts for the pro-Zionist stance of the Uruguayan delegation at the United Nations during the debate on Palestine reveals that the position coincides with the pro-Zionist consensus among local political groups and was influenced by the local Jewish community lobby and its contacts with government representatives. Un examen de los documentos sobre el proceso de toma de decisiones que explica la postura pro-sionista de la delegación uruguaya en las Naciones Unidas durante el debate sobre Palestina revela que la posición coincide con el consenso pro-sionista entre los grupos políticos locales y fue influenciada por el lobby de la comunidad judía local y sus contactos con representantes del gobierno.

Paul the Cosmopolitan?

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-163
Author(s):  
Christopher D. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
World Order ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
Christ Followers ◽  
Present World ◽  
Local Jewish Community ◽  
The Ideal

The apostle Paul has been viewed by many as a cosmopolitan thinker who called Christ-followers to embrace the ideal of a single humanity living in harmony with a divinely ordered cosmos. A close comparison of Paul's apocalyptic theology with various interpretations of ‘cosmopolitanism’ over the centuries, however, shows few points of agreement. Paul was fundamentally a Jewish sectarian whose vision for a better world embraced only Christ-followers and involved the cataclysmic end of the present world order. Those who accepted and lived by this vision were effectively relegated to the same marginal position in civic life as the local Jewish community.

scholarly journals The Book of Leviticus Interpreted as Jewish Community

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Belief Structures ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Direct Correspondence

This article addresses an essay, published in 2001 by John Van Engen, entitled "Ralph of Flaix:  The Book of Leviticus Interpreted as Christian Community.”  Ralph’s voluminous commentary, composed and published in the mid-twelfth century, aimed, in Van Engen’s words, at “refuting Jewish arguments” about the biblical book and the nature of the levitical law, particularly as these arguments might influence young Christian clerics who were “fascinated and troubled by a close reading of the biblical text.”The present article examines three rabbinic commentaries on Leviticus roughly contemporary with Ralph, those of Rashi, Rashbam and R. Joseph Bekhor Shor.  Through examining the “close reading” through which these three exegetes interpreted specific biblical texts, the article considers whether or not they presented what might be considered as “the Book of Leviticus Interpreted as Jewish Community” and as such conveyed what may have been the types of arguments with which Ralph was in conversation.The article does not attempt to provide a direct correspondence between specific Jewish and Christian exegetes.  Rather, the article suggests that the content and form of 12th century Jewish and Christian biblical exegesis bespeak a type of conversation among those using the literary genre of “commentary writing,” and that it is possible to gain an understanding of the contours of that conversation through analysis of the commentaries they wrote.  Additionally, the article examines ways in which medieval Jewish exegetes may have advanced arguments in their commentaries that were intended to sustain the Jewish community in their observances and belief structures in the presence of Christian hegemony. 

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