Tag Archives: Ruth
The Three Roads to a Jewish Identity
The Jewish traditional law layouts three criteria for membership into the Jewish fold: birth, marriage to a male Jew, and conversion. However, these three doors into the Jewish community have not been operative simultaneously through history. Intermarriage The biblical period shows how marriage to a male Jew was the key for an outsider to enter [...]
Posted in Biblical Hebrew
Tagged Abraham, Boaz, conversion, Ezra, intermarriage, Israel, Jerusalem, Leviticus, Mesopotamia, Moses, Nehemiah, Ruth, Ur
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Women and Religion in Israel
The Difference between King David and his great-grandmother Ruth It is true to say the two subjects, women and religion, do not hold a central role in the religious history of the Israelites. Israel was a patrilineal society were men made the rules and wrote the history of their nation. In this history and especially [...]
Posted in Biblical Hebrew
Tagged Asherah, David, Deborah, Ezekiel, Israel, Miriam, Moab, Monotheism, Old testament, Queen of Heaven, religion, Ruth, Tabernacle, Tammuz, women
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Abraham and Ruth
Two stories of new beginnings we can read in the Old Testament, two stories that are fundamental to our culture. Both are stories of fresh start, when the character left her house, her nation, her family, in order to start a new life in a new place. The beautiful words of the Hebrew Language can [...]