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Rabbi Asher Finkel, Ph.D.

Selected Works

2009

Hillel

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The Midrashic Construct Of Early Christian Texts In Light Of Early Homiletics In The Synagogue, Asher Finkel Ph.D. Aug 2009

The Midrashic Construct Of Early Christian Texts In Light Of Early Homiletics In The Synagogue, Asher Finkel Ph.D.

Rabbi Asher Finkel, Ph.D.

The Gospel preserves the preaching of Jesus as well as his early Jewish followers who penned these works, during the decades before and after the destruction of the Second Temple in the Christian first century. They offer a witness to homiletic midrash as distinct from the exegetical midrash. The latter governs the different approaches to the Biblical text and its wording. This paper was presented at the 15th World Congress of Jewish Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in August 2009.


The “Alenu” Prayer: A Protest Or Acclamation, Asher Finkel Ph.D. May 2009

The “Alenu” Prayer: A Protest Or Acclamation, Asher Finkel Ph.D.

Rabbi Asher Finkel, Ph.D.

This paper examines the tradition of the synagogal Hebrew prayer of the "Alenu" and was presented at the 44th International Conference on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University on May 8, 2009.