ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As a Jewish example of redemption through impurity, this article analyses the ’strange acts’ of the Jewish mystic Shabbetai Tsvi. These acts included pronunciation of the tetragrammaton, liturgical subversions of synagogue service and Jewish praxis in general, odd approaches to sex, praying at grave sites, extreme asceticism, and conversion to Islam. Referring to theories by Robert Bellah, Philippe Descola, and Hans J. Lundager Jensen, I argue for the adequacy of ’inverted dualism’ as a concept that can explain these strange acts in conflict with Jewish law. The explanation is situated in the historical development of Israelite-Jewish religion from a monistic worldview, over a direct dualistic worldview, to an inverted, th...
Ethiopian Christianity has often been regarded by European travelers and missionaries as impure, bec...
Denne artikkelen stiller aldri spørsmål ved staten Israel og det israelske folkets rett til å leve t...
Gottlieb Klein arrived in Sweden in 1883, and started working as a rabbi in the Jewish congregation ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the Hebrew Bible, there is no wish for a heavenly existence among human beings;...
Anti-Jewish stereotypes are often unwittingly handed on by theologians in different fields. Surprisi...
Tales of Conversion and Modern IdentitiesThe accounts of conversion to Judaism shed light on the lif...
English abstract: The Qurʾān is both a holy scripture and a holy object. As the latter, certain rule...
This essay was originally presented as a lecture as part of the celebration of Professor dr. theol. ...
The article discusses Hans Jørgen Lundager Jensen's analysis of the function of olfaction in the Heb...
In this article, the author problematizes the knowledge of the Torah in Christian religious educatio...
This paper: On The Track of the Sacred - On Mircea Eliade's Hierology, presents the basic theories a...
Jewish Culture of the Book and the Jewish Libraries in DenmarkTraditionally, the concept of People o...
Tempelforståelsen i Deuteronomium og i det historiske Palæstina (Jerusalem, Samaria) i persisk ti
In a way similar to earlier biblical times Jews in the time after Alexander the Great were confronte...
From the start there has been a conflict between Christianity and Judaism. In the New Testament the ...
Ethiopian Christianity has often been regarded by European travelers and missionaries as impure, bec...
Denne artikkelen stiller aldri spørsmål ved staten Israel og det israelske folkets rett til å leve t...
Gottlieb Klein arrived in Sweden in 1883, and started working as a rabbi in the Jewish congregation ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the Hebrew Bible, there is no wish for a heavenly existence among human beings;...
Anti-Jewish stereotypes are often unwittingly handed on by theologians in different fields. Surprisi...
Tales of Conversion and Modern IdentitiesThe accounts of conversion to Judaism shed light on the lif...
English abstract: The Qurʾān is both a holy scripture and a holy object. As the latter, certain rule...
This essay was originally presented as a lecture as part of the celebration of Professor dr. theol. ...
The article discusses Hans Jørgen Lundager Jensen's analysis of the function of olfaction in the Heb...
In this article, the author problematizes the knowledge of the Torah in Christian religious educatio...
This paper: On The Track of the Sacred - On Mircea Eliade's Hierology, presents the basic theories a...
Jewish Culture of the Book and the Jewish Libraries in DenmarkTraditionally, the concept of People o...
Tempelforståelsen i Deuteronomium og i det historiske Palæstina (Jerusalem, Samaria) i persisk ti
In a way similar to earlier biblical times Jews in the time after Alexander the Great were confronte...
From the start there has been a conflict between Christianity and Judaism. In the New Testament the ...
Ethiopian Christianity has often been regarded by European travelers and missionaries as impure, bec...
Denne artikkelen stiller aldri spørsmål ved staten Israel og det israelske folkets rett til å leve t...
Gottlieb Klein arrived in Sweden in 1883, and started working as a rabbi in the Jewish congregation ...