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The publication of an English translation of the Siddur helped shape Jewish-American Identity. Pinto was deeply involved in the relevant political problems of colonial America. He wrote main articles that promoted independence from Britain that gave him influence in the debate about Independence. This influence resulted in Pinto signing the Non ...
The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ (2012) carries on the line of exploration begun in Border Lines, developing the argument that "New Testament" ideas can be found in long-standing Jewish traditions. [6] Boyarin has written extensively on Talmudic and Midrashic studies, and about the Jews as a colonized people. [7]
John Eliot (c. 1604 – 21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called "the apostle to the Indians" [1] [2] [3] and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from Judaism after the split of Judaism and Christianity. Christianity originated as a movement within Judaism that believed in Jesus as the Messiah. The earliest Christians were Jews or ...
The first English edition of the entire Bible was not published in the colonies until 1752, by Samuel Kneeland. [33] [34] Eliot's Indian Bible translation of the complete Christian Bible was supposedly written with one pen. [35] This printing project was the largest printing job done in 17th-century Colonial America. [13]
Samuel Green (1615 – January 1, 1702) was an early American printer, the first of several printers from the Green family who followed in his footsteps. One of Green's major accomplishments as a printer was the Eliot Indian Bible , translated by the missionary John Eliot , typeset by James Printer , which became the first Bible to be printed ...
Ezra Stiles (10 December [O.S. 29 November] 1727 – May 12, 1795) [1] [2] was an American educator, academic, Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He is noted as the seventh president of Yale College (1778–1795) and one of the founders of Brown University.
William Eugene Blackstone (October 6, 1841 – November 7, 1935) was an American evangelist and Christian Zionist.He was the author of the Blackstone Memorial (1891), a petition which called upon the United States to actively return the Holy Land to the Jewish people.