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Was it the Israelites who enslaved themselves in Eygpt? (Vaera)
Now, mind you, there were already plenty of Israelites who were doing quite well for themselves. As I pointed out in an earlier essay on parshat Shemot, slavery in Egypt was an entirely different ...
Christianity Today2d
When Obeying God Means Resisting Rulers
Biblical teaching generally pushes Christians to advocate for submission to authorities, whether in politics or in the church ...
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Allah’s 99 Names and the God of the Hebrews
The Qur’an contains 99 Arabic names (attributes or character traits) for the multifaceted essence of the one God, but not one of them connects the one God with one people, while one of the dozens of ...
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Those who stayed in Egypt
I have come to see that my 'wide tent' cannot include those fringe alienated Jews who go so far as to betray core Jewish ...
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In the first century AD, Jews lived across the Roman Empire in relative harmony.
By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...