Browsing Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR by Subject "Jødedom"
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The Question of origin - Placing the book of jubilees within a mosaic, qumratic, or enochian context
(Master thesis, 2012-06-01)In this thesis I attempt to place the Book of Jubilees in its original context. I do this by the means of historical criticism, and compare texts from the second temple period. The thesis is divided into three parts, 1) ... -
Resident Proselytes, god-fearers and the Noahide laws. Making a case for an identification between the ger toshav in traditional Judaism and the sebomenos ton theon in Hellenistic literature
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)The gerei toshav, resident proselytes, are met in the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature. They are defined by the sages of the Talmud as Gentiles who accepted upon themselves the seven Noahide commandments. These laws ... -
The revolt of the Devil and Fall of Adam and Eve
(Master thesis, 2011-05-31)In this paper it is the development of the notion of an evil figure that became the source of the introduction of sins and evil things on earth. In fact there are two questions that will be dealt with in this paper; the ... -
The social realities behind ancient religious texts
(Master thesis, 2012-11-19)The main question of this paper is whether taking into account the social reality of the word knowledge', through the method of pragmatics, attributes something to its meaning that lexical semantics alone cannot?'. Nine ...