Hebrew – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:43:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Hebrew – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Ancient Hebrew Texts on Pregnancy and Abortion https://brewminate.com/ancient-hebrew-texts-on-pregnancy-and-abortion/ Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:44:09 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=122212 The foundational Jewish texts assert that a fetus does not attain the status of personhood until birth. Traditional

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Ahriman: From the Lord of Darkness in Zoroastrianism to the Devil in Christianity https://brewminate.com/ahriman-from-the-lord-of-darkness-in-zoroastrianism-to-the-devil-in-christianity/ Thu, 20 Feb 2020 19:08:58 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=117625 He is thought to have influenced supernatural entities in later religions such as Satan in Judaism, the devil

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Jewish Cosmology in its Ancient Near Eastern Context https://brewminate.com/jewish-cosmology-in-its-ancient-near-eastern-context/ Sun, 09 Jun 2019 19:11:48 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=98623 Considering the spread of Judaism from the viewpoint of other cultures in the Ancient Near East. Introduction The

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Global Monotheism: The Contribution of the Israelite Prophets https://brewminate.com/global-monotheism-the-contribution-of-the-israelite-prophets/ Sun, 09 Jun 2019 19:11:20 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=98628 Examining the transitions from “selective polytheism” to henotheism and subsequently, from henotheism to global monotheism. Introduction In his

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Palaeography: Medieval Scribes and the Transmission of Hebrew Scientific Works https://brewminate.com/palaeography-medieval-scribes-and-the-transmission-of-hebrew-scientific-works/ Wed, 22 May 2019 17:29:26 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=97333 Before the age of printing, the texts and layouts of Hebrew works were not standardised. This is because

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How Translation Obscured the Music and Wordplay of the Bible https://brewminate.com/how-translation-obscured-the-music-and-wordplay-of-the-bible/ Sun, 17 Mar 2019 17:33:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=89518 Translators of the Bible have rarely understood the need or made the effort to convey the literary dimension

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