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Jewish Science is a Judaic spiritual movement comparable to the New Thought Movement. Many of its members also attend services at conventional synagogues . [ 1 ]
Scribes woke to morning bells before dawn and worked until the evening bells, with a lunch break in between. They worked every day except for the Sabbath. [108] The primary purpose of these scribes was to promote the ideas of the Christian Church, so they mostly copied classical and religious works.
A sofer at work, Ein Bokek, Israel A sofer sews together the pieces of parchment A sofer, sopher, sofer SeTaM, or sofer ST"M (Hebrew: סופר סת״ם, "scribe"; plural soferim, סופרים) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe Sifrei Kodesh (holy scrolls), tefillin (phylacteries), mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם, is an abbreviation of these three terms) and other religious writings.
Later she suggested that Christian Science was a kind of second coming and that Science and Health was an inspired text. [n 10] [48] In 1895, in the Manual of the Mother Church, she ordained the Bible and Science and Health as "Pastor over the Mother Church". [49] Christian Science theology differs in several respects from that of traditional ...
Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible, with Bible referring to the books of the canonical Hebrew Bible in mainstream Jewish usage and the Christian Bible including the canonical Old Testament and New Testament, respectively.
Jewish Science is a Jewish philosophy developed in response to and as a counterweight to the Christian elements of Christian Science and New Thought. Jewish Science may also refer to: Wissenschaft des Judentums, the science of Judaism; Jewish Physics, a discriminatory term in the Nazi era
Many observant Jews from all Jewish denominations have a qualified scribe check the mezuzot parchments for defects (such as small tears or faded lettering) at least twice every seven years. [30] [31] This job can be done by a sofer (scribe) or by anyone with similar training. A sofer also can make new mezuzot parchments which are in accordance ...
Mosaic authorship is the Judeo-Christian tradition that the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, were dictated by God to Moses. [1] The tradition probably began with the legalistic code of the Book of Deuteronomy and was then gradually extended until Moses, as the central character, came to be regarded not just as the mediator of law but as author of both laws and ...