Christians, Jewish

Scenes of contemporary Christian, Jewish or Muslim Rites 8... 

Every year all around the world we celebrate certain cultural events dealing with our past. For example, in Christianity, Easter is celebrated m the spring and Christmas is celebrated in December in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur is celebrated in October and Ramadan, the time of festing, is celebrated by Muslims according to a lunar calendar. Briefly discuss the basis of the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Chinese calendars. 

For the kabbalist, the secret name of God, known as the Tetra-grammaton, was the source of power. Pico della Mirandola in his Conclusiones Nonogentae (1482) had first attempted to interpret the Jewish kabbalistic texts in Christian terms.It was Reuchlin, however. 

To these ancient identities was added in due course the historical Jesus.It was the apostle Paul who established the dehnitive Christian dogma concerning the nature of Christ. His account recalls the role of the ancient Iranian and Jewish Saviour figure (although the exact relationship to the pagan elements is the subject of serious contention on the part of Christian theology). 

Barnstone, Willis and Marvin Meyer, eds.The Gnostic bible Gnostic texts of mystical wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds - Pagan, Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar. Shambhala, 2003. 860p. 

Smith, Catherine. "Mysticism and feminism." In Women of spirit female leadership in the Jewish and Christian traditions, eds. Rosemary Radford Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin. New York , 1979. 

After earning a lackluster Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1891, Haber wrote a friend, The thesis is miserable. One and a half years of new substances prepared like a baker s bread rolls.. . . One learns to be modest. In preparation for entering his father s business, he studied chemical technology in an alcohol distillery in Hungary, a Solvay soda factory in Austria, and a salt mine in Poland. His obligatory year in the Prussian army left him with a smart, military manner and a love of rank and discipline. His attempts to become a reserve officer failed, however, for this was a prestigious honor reserved for Christians, and Haber was Jewish. 

The racial character of Jewishness in the New World ebbed and flowed over time. The saga of Jewishness-as-difference in North America properly begins as early as 1654, when Peter Stuyvesant wrote to the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch West India Company that Christian settlers in New Amsterdam had deemed it useful to require [Jews] in a friendly way to depart. Stuyvesant went on to pray that the deceitful race,— such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ,—be not allowed further to infect and trouble this new colony. 2 In the early republic Jewishness was most often taken up as a matter not of racial dif-... 

According to Rossiter (1982), young white male scientists were seen as the salvation of the scientific enterprise in the 1920s and 1930s. She asserts that white women, African Americans, and Jewish scientists seeking industrial jobs were the victims of highly discriminatory employment practices. Rossiter contends that even when the advertisement did not include the phrase male Christians only it was common knowledge that only they need apply. 

It s really two statements. The first line tells you when, and that s after a day that was once holy and now isn t, at least not to us. Tomorrow is Saturday, which is the Jewish Sabbath. Our Christian holy day is Sunday, so we no longer keep Saturday as holy. Got that ... 

The problem of drunkenness was well known in ancient and early Christian times, and many religious and other leaders condemned the use of alcohol. At the same time, though, wine was celebrated in Greek religion as the gift of Dionysus (or Bacchus), and in the New Testament and subsequent Christian tradition it became the blood of Christ. Alcohol had a less prominent role in Jewish culture. The Muslims, however, banned its use. Attitudes toward alcohol and other intoxicating beverages vary widely in other world cultures. 

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