Author: Ephraim Nissan
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031460693
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Languages : en
Pages : 401

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Author: Ephraim Nissan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783031460685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Counter-hagiography and counter-biography besmirch foundational figures held dear by different religious, political, or social groups. Such phenomena figure prominently in the history of religion and conflicts. For example, what we know of the Mazdakite revolution in pre-Islamic Iran/Iraq comes from revilers. The anti-Judaic polemicist from ninth-century Afghanistan and Iraq, Hiwi (“Snake”), was actually called Ḥəyyāwī (still a name among Iraqi Jews). The reputation of the great Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) thinker Moses Mendelssohn was damaged among the Orthodox by how Haskalah extremists portrayed him in their image. In 1869, a Genoan politician, Cesare Cabella, fulminated against Esther and Mordecai. In the Letter of Haman in rabbinic homiletics, Jews parodized hostile representations of their sacred history. Gerson Rosenzweig parroted in his 1892 talmudic-style Tractate America, anti-immigrant rhetoric from New York newspapers. Roman-age rabbis responded to claims about the protagonist of the Book of Joshua, “Joshua the Robber” as per a North African inscription early Byzantine Procopius of Caesarea alleged to have seen.

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Category : Circleville (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1708

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Author: Wallace L. Daniel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501777351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Freedom and the Captive Mind is a biography of Fr. Gleb Yakunin, the first Orthodox priest to adopt an ecumenical approach to Russian Orthodoxy, earning him the enmity of conservative groups within the Church and gratitude from other religious denominations. Father Yakunin believed the survival of the Church depended on its willingness to reform. When he was suspended, Yakunin continued to fight the system, working to expose the persecution of religious believers in the Soviet Union. After years of exile, Yakunin entered politics. He was criticized by religious authorities, denounced by nationalist politicians, and excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church. As Wallace L. Daniel demonstrates, the letters Yakunin wrote and his revelations about the relationship between the Church hierarchy and the KGB stand as monuments of courage and the determination to reveal the truth about abuses of power and the authoritarian mindset that predominated in both institutions.

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Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Languages : en
Pages : 758

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Author: Marlies Casier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136938672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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This book examines some of the most pressing issues facing the Turkish political establishment, focusing in particular on the issues of nationalism, the Kurds and political Islam.

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Category : Restaurants
Languages : en
Pages : 1112

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Category : Bartenders
Languages : en
Pages : 1072

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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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