... Christians have forgotten their true relationship."1 As we look at the Jewish and the Christian faiths, both of which trace their origins back past Abraham and Moses, to the original stories of Genesis and the Garden of Eden, we notice basic similarities and major differences between the two religions. This paper will attempt to highlight those similarities and differences, illustrating major ... fact remains that "the church [..] cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament from the people with whom G-d in His ineffable mercy concluded the former convenant."1 The...

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... of spirituality in particular, there is a long path that lies between the stage of a woman's spiritual novice and the ultimate state of transcendence where all boundaries of caste, class and sex get eroded. It is in relation to the spiritual path rather than the spiritual goals that one has to situate the whole issue of gender and spirituality. Various women responded ... the outright refusal of marriage, as in the case of Andal and even the rejection of the fiercely imposed widowhood, with regard to the story of Mira- are all exemplified stories that that travelled through time as tale...

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