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Caption only: In honor of Esther
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An Israeli ultra-orthodox Jewish man wears a costume Sunday as he
walks in a Jerusalem street during celebration of...
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PROFESSOR'S `BIBLE AS IT WAS' IS A FINE PIECE OF DETECTIVE WORK.(Lifestyle)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Why did God choose Abraham to be the father of the Jewish people? The conventional answer to this basic question is that Abraham was a righteous man who believed in the one God, rejecting the idols of his own people and his ancestors. But as James L. Kugel writes in this wonderfully rich and
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Revelation, textual criticism, and divine writ
Judaism
; Forty days after the giving of the Torah, when the children of Israel danced around the golden calf proclaiming, "This is your God, Israel who brought you out of Egypt" (Exodus 32:8), revelation was suspended. Seven hundred years later, when the children of Israel returned from Babylonian
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Letter: Charles, Cyrus, Ashoka and the Thai king
The Independent - London
; Sir: Your leading article emphatically claims that "Charles cannot be a defender of all faiths" (27 June) because that "is constitutional and religious nonsense". I am not so sure about legal, but religious nonsense it's not. A perfect precedent would be the Persian-Zoroastrian King of Kings, Cyrus
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Pope hits at shame of Nazis
Birmingham Mail
; POPE Benedict XVI has said the Nazi concentration camps remained "an indelible shame in the history of humanity". During his weekly public sermon, dedicated to an interpretation of the biblical Psalms, the German-born Pope linked the laments of the Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people in Psalm
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Pope hits at shame of Nazis.(News)
Birmingham Mail (England)
; POPE Benedict XVI has said the Nazi concentration camps remained an indelible shame in the history of humanity . During his weekly public sermon, dedicated to an interpretation of the biblical Psalms, the German-born Pope linked the laments of the Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people in Psalm
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