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The Nonhuman Rights Project: Coming to a Country Near You
Get PDFThe Nonhuman Rights Project is challenging the “thinghood” of all nonhuman animals by demanding that courts declare such nonhuman animals as great apes, elephants, and cetaceans to be “legal persons,” who possess the fundamental right to bodily liberty that is protected by the common law writ of habeas corpus
Book reviews
No full textDansk og/eller jøde (Jacques Blum, 1972) is reviewed by George Nelleman.Svensk flyktingpolitik under internationellt tryck 1936–1941 (Hans Lindberg, 1973) is reviewed by Joachim Nelhans.
Om judisk konst
No full textIn this article, the author examines the topic of Jewish art. Jewish art has certain characteristics determined by Jewish ritual and tradition. In this sense, it is motivated to speak of a collective form of art of religious, Jewish character. This kind of art is found, for example, in the ornamentation of the synagogues, in ritual objects and in medieval manuscripts. Jewish art has been flourishing when Judaism has been on safe grounds in society. Jewish art has not always been pursued by Jews only. At the same time, all art pursued by Jews cannot be considered Jewish art
Skjold og sværd. En replik til Tryggve Kronholm
No full textHanne Trautner-Kromann comments on Tryggve Kronholm's review of her doctoral dissertation, published in Nordisk Judaistik Vol. 11 No 1-2, 1990
Why did Cain kill Abel? How did Cain kill Abel? Methodological reflections on the retelling of the Cain and Abel narrative in Bereshit Rabbah
No full textThis article begins with some reflections on the nature of the midrashic enterprise, focusing upon two major points. Any attempt to delineate the character of any biblical figure as he/she is presented in rabbinic literature is mistaken in its basic presuppositions. The Rabbis did not see the narratives they derived from their excavations into the biblical text as having the same level of facticity and historicity as they did the narrative of the Bible itself. An analysis of the “Our father Jacob never died” discussion in Talmud Bavli, Ta’anit 4b follows, and it leads to the conclusion that midrashic narrative is explicitly demarcated from the historical-literal reconstruction of past events. The remainder of the paper deals with the retelling of the Cain killing Abel history, or rather with the three different reconstructions of that story, in Bereshit Rabbah, and with the detailing of the method by which Cain killed Abel. One is presented as midrashic exegesis and the other as maximalist antiquarian exegesis, and the argument is made that these modes should be radically demarcated from each other
Serubbabels bok
No full textSefer Serubabbel is the name of a pseudoephigraphical work which probably originates from the 7th century in Palestine or its surroundings. The importance of the tractate is stressed, with the reference to the eschatological schema it describes and the personages it inaugurates into the schema, influencing almost all later Jewish writing on the subject. The inner layer of the text constitutes the frame narrative, which describes the acts of Serubabbel, his meeting with the suffering Messiah and the angelus interpres. The text is a major witness to the confluence of the Metatron and Michael traditions. The innermost layer consists of the segments in which the angel(s) tell(s) about future events. The author focuses on a presentation of Hefsi-bah, Messiah ben Joseph and Armilos
Targum Onkelos til Genesis 4,7B
No full textThis article focuses on the Targum Onqelos (TO), and its rendering of Gn 4:7b. What is the origin of TO’s rendering of v. 7b? The Targumin in general, as the remaining rabbinic literature, is their haggadah of a given text from the Hebrew Bible draw upon other texts. From the formal place of view, TO is an overall quite literary translation of the biblical text. Yet, TO contains exegesis in condensed form, and has its own exegetical methodology. The exegesis tends to reflect the rabbinical tradition, especially as represented by the earliest Midrashim. The investigation confirms the impression that TO in general tends to integrate traditions found elsewhere in the rabbinic literature, traditions which this literature associates with Gn 4:7 and/or the figure of Cain. TP’s rendering is consistent, as the Targum’s rendering of GN 4:b is well in tune with other, relevant Targum texts, both on Gn 4, and on other biblical texts. Associative translation of different targumic texts , as well as analogy with the Septuagint, may have been of some consequence. The Targum may also have connected its interpretation of Gn 4:7 with the conception of “the Gate of Repentance”. But in particular TO’s rendering of v. 7b may be a result of a text-immanent reading of the Hebrew Bible text, using texts that have a similar literary structure, and/or identical phrases, or containing the same motif. All things considered, the investigation has confirmed the overall picture of Targum Onqelos as a typical representative of rabbinic exegesis, concerning both content and exegetical methodology
Judendomen i det kursbundna gymnasiets läroböcker i Finland
No full textThose who belong to the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland and attend upper school (gymnasium) are taught five courses in religion in the course of three years. Those who belong to the Orthodox Church are taught the same amount of courses. In the course on non-Christian religions Judaism in treated in addition to Hinduism, Buddhism, religions in China and Japan, and Islam. This means that Judaism, on average, gets five lessons, which is a very modest amount. In general it can be said that the upper school textbooks deal with Judaism impartially and that they do not contain errors in substance. They contain very little information about modern Judaism and about the Judaism of the diaspora. The text is largely filled with Biblical history, and when it comes to modern Judaism it deals mainly with questions with a political dimension such as the Zionist movement and the state of Israel. Another regrettable matter is the paucity of information concerning the Jews in Finland
Book reviews
No full textJudendomens historia (Hanne Trautner-Kromann, 1983) is reviewed by Karl-Johan Illman.Josefus som historieskriver (Per Bilde, 1983) is reviewed by Nils Martola.Den antike jødedom. Politisk udvikling og religiøse strømninger fra Aleksander den Store til kejser Hadrian (Benedikt Otzen, 1984) is reviewed by Nils Martola