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This section taught Gentile children about Gentile-Jew relationships. It depicted Jews as forcing themselves on Gentile women, contrasted with Gentile men refusing any relationship with Jewish women. This section taught Gentile girls to fear Jewish romantic and sexual advances and Gentile boys to fear any seduction from Jewish women.
The book has six chapters: Chapter 1 – The Prohibition of Killing a Gentile: In this chapter, it is argued that the source of the prohibition of killing a gentile from the Torah is not in the commandment "Thou shalt not murder", which deals only with the murder of a Jew, but in the commandment "Whoever sheds a man's blood, his blood shall be shed", which was said after the flood, and is one ...
Typically, the KJV restricts the translation to "gentile" when the text is specifically referring to non-Jewish people. For example, the only use of the word in Genesis is in chapter 10, verse 5, referring to the peopling of the world by descendants of Japheth , "By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after ...
Sefer shel Beinonim ("The Book of the Average Men"). This book is a Hasidic guide to the psychological drama of daily Jewish spiritual life. It describes how contemplating the mystical greatness of the Creator and the union that a Jew has with Him through the Torah's commandments, can achieve the love and fear of God necessary for sincere worship.
You Gentiles is a 1924 book written by Romanian-born British and American-Jewish author Maurice Samuel.It discusses points of difference in behavior between Jews and Gentiles focusing on physical activity, religion, concepts of good and evil, loyalty, science, fair play, and discipline.
In Paul's thinking, instead of humanity divided as "Israel and the nations" which is the classic understanding of Judaism, we have "Israel after the flesh" (i.e., the Jewish people), non-Jews whom he calls "the nations," (i.e., Gentiles) and a new people called "the church of God" made of all those whom he designates as "in Christ" (1 Corinthians 10:32).
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Through the eyes of Jacob, the book recounts the history of Jewish settlement in Poland at the end of the 17th century. While most of the book's protagonists are Jews, the book is also a criticism of Orthodox Jewish society. [1] The English version was translated by the author and Cecil Hemley. [2]