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Monotheism And Its Vicissitudes, K. Daniel Cho
Monotheism And Its Vicissitudes, K. Daniel Cho
Education Faculty Scholarship & Creative Works
Challenging the claim that monotheism is intolerant, the author presents an original interpretation of Sigmund Freud’s last book Moses and Monotheism. Freud is shown offering a theory of monotheism in which monotheism is not seen as exclusive, but rather as inherently equivocal.
Enemies Of Israel: Ruth And The Canaanite Woman, Glenna S. Jackson
Enemies Of Israel: Ruth And The Canaanite Woman, Glenna S. Jackson
Religion & Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
This article elaborates on the author’s monograph “Have mercy on me”: The story of the Canaanite woman in Matthew 15.21-28 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002). According to the monograph, Matthew uses the Psalms, the story of Ruth and rabbinic tradition to turn Mark’s story of the Syrophoenician woman (7:24-30) into a conversion formula for entrance into the Jewish community. This article employs an intertextuality approach to enhance the theory of proselytism in Matthew’s gospel. The Canaanite woman passes a three-time rejection, one-time acceptance test that the first-century rabbis delineated from the story of Ruth for converting to Judaism.
Naomi, Ruth And Orpah, Glenna S. Jackson
Naomi, Ruth And Orpah, Glenna S. Jackson
Religion & Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
This article explores how the friendship of the two women, Naomi and Ruth, crossed religious and cultural boundaries. The cross-cultural dimension of their friendship impressed the early rabbis who saw in the story of Ruth's loyalty and commitment to Naomi a paradigm of conversion.