Search results for "Jewish folklore" - New World Encyclopedia
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- greatest prophet who ever came from a non-Jewish population, including even ... The first century C.E. Jewish historian Josephus speaks of Balaam ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- son of a wood merchant from a middle class Jewish family. He entered the University ... of Scholarship. The Journal of American Folklore, 104(411), 74-83. ...16 KB (2,237 words) - 04:43, 22 November 2023
- sacred text, such as Hindu scripture, Jewish scripture, etc.. However ... Torah, the early Church Gospels, and the folklore of the indigenous North ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- Grigori. The angels were fairly popular in Jewish folklore, which often describes them as looking like large human beings that never sleep and remain ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- He also demonstrated a strong interest in folklore and the mythology of the ... come to detest Christianity and its "Jewish" Christ, insisting the ...23 KB (3,561 words) - 16:24, 15 May 2024
- novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of the ... efforts by Ignatz Waghalter, a Polish-Jewish composer who had escaped ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, of Lithuanian Jewish descent ... Depression, thus the common American folklore served as the basis for ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- a future event prophesied in sacred texts or folklore. By analyzing ... writings from ancient Persia and the Jewish Bible affirm that history ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- found in Mesopotamian mythology and Jewish folklore, associated with sexual ... Such stories are commonly found among Jewish folklore. ...47 KB (7,623 words) - 08:39, 8 March 2023
- "to throw a hand." According to folklore, a mythical giant called ... which attracted a large Orthodox Jewish community. Antwerp was not ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
- served the same pejorative purpose as the Jewish term gentile, the Islamic ... Heathen is from Old English hæðen "not Christian or Jewish ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- In religion, folklore, and mythology, a demon (also rendered daemon ... Shedim in Jewish thought and literature were portrayed as quite malevolent ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- the subject of a variety of legends and folklore throughout Britain and Ireland ... , "I'll put a stone on your cairn." In Highland folklore ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- rather than by marriage. In both Islamic and Jewish dietary laws (Kashrut), consumption of food containing blood is forbidden. In certain Aboriginal ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- or Pentateuch (which corresponds to the Jewish Torah); the history books ... of the Hebrew scriptures and are also Jewish in origin. Some are also ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- merely one of a king but of a crusader), but some Jewish leaders showed up anyway to present gifts for the new king. According to Ralph of Diceto, Richard ...37 KB (6,079 words) - 04:23, 10 December 2022
- the Slovak government resorted to anti-Jewish measures to replenish its ... to haunt Slovakia’s past, and the anti-Jewish laws of 1940, mandating Aryanization ...34 KB (4,802 words) - 15:55, 22 May 2024
- hierarchy of angels continues into the Jewish literature of the period ... and also the Qur'an (see below). Some Jewish exegetes go further and identify ...37 KB (6,014 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- In addition to studying Arabic, first with a Jewish teacher, then ... concerned to discredit Western folklore and crude polemical lies ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- to Devil's Island of the Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus ... retains a special place in French mining-town folklore. ...16 KB (2,483 words) - 18:12, 13 February 2024
