... Antiochene Church would substitute Jerusalem as the base of Christianity in the course of time, surpassing even Caesarea Maritima (the seat of Roman governance in Palestine with a predominant Gentile Christian Church), eventually leading in liturgical and doctrinal affairs in the Eastern Frontier. In fact it is due in a large part to this successful network of roads that made communication ... the Shemoneh Esre ("Eighteen Blessings") recited each day by male Jews; an addition against heretics. This became known as the Birkat ha-minim or "blessing against the heretics" which a Jewish-Ch...

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... enthusiastic convert to Christianity, visited Jerusalem and guided by religion and faith, identified holy sites associated with the last days of Jesus and established the focal points of Christian pilgirmage for all time. With the building of great churches, notably the Holy Sepulcher, pilgrim accommodation, monastries and convents, pilgrims were showing a much more devotional approach ... Israel (1967 to the Present) there has been relatively free access to holy places for pilgrims, with occasional lapses for short-term security concerns. (Davidson & Glitz, 2002) Within Christian faith ...

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... a devil, when talking to Launcelot she describes her house and father, " Our house is hell, and thou a merry devil." There is clear Christian prejudice towards Shylock. There seems to be no sound basis for the hatred of this man. Clearly people hate him because of his success in business ... to a bond that could see his dearest friend Antonio die. How do we know Jessica is a good daughter to Shylock? Jessica is courting a Christian behind her father's back, which clearly demonstrates deceit. Later on in the play she even steels from Shylock, her father. Can we take this character ... for...

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... rights as Christians, in fact, at some point, they were considered to be excluded from German life altogether. In 1878, Adolf Stoecker, a German anti-Semitic preacher and politician, started the Christian Socialist Party, which really was the turning point for anti-Semitism in Germany. The socialists were fighting against equality. According to Orlow (30), "For the socialists themselves, the effect ... how much of a factor one's actual religion played vs. one's race. The lies of the people were intertwined among both religion and race. Stoecker delivered anti-Semitic messages to the Chr...

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... Catholic dogma which survived with little change into the Twenty- first Century. By aggressively preaching a divine edict to renounce the fundamental instinct to seek pleasure, the Roman Christian church and other Christian sects thrived and gained unparalleled control over their adherents. However, since humankind's placement at the center of the universe lay at the core of the argument for ... rejecting natural instincts, the Roman Christian church found it necessary to reject scientific discoveries of the Renaissance which denied humans of this exalted cosmic address. In the early Six...

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... his daughter Jessica elopes with Lorenzo, Shylock is left alone. He screams in rage: My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!" (II. viii.15-16). As much as he loves his daughter, he can not decide which loss is more devastating- the money or Jessica ... and vicious. There is no excuse for such immoral behavior but there is a good explanation. Shylock expresses hate towards Antonio because .he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. ... alien at...

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... is his final punishment. Shakespeare could have easily ended Shylock's penalty at confiscating Shylock's possessions, however, he is forced into converting to Christianity: "for this favor, he presently become a Christian." (IV, i, 384-385) Indeed Christianity tortures Shylock, this is the worst of all punishments for him; Shylock is not well after converting and needs to leave: "I pray thee give ... it seems Shakespeare is trying to enlighten the Elizabethan people, and teach them to change their ways and forget their differences. The elopement f Jessica, a Jewish woman; and Lorenzo, a...

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... apparent in the very beginning of the play. Not everyone was introduced by using their name and religion but Shylock was. It never said "enters Antonio the Christian" but it did say many times "Enters Shylock the Jew." (pg. 27) This was done to make sure that Shylock stood out in the crowd ... servant Lancelet was also very prejudice towards Shylock. Lancelet was supposed to be his servant, some one below him and yet Lancelet considers himself better than Shylock because is Christian and Shylock is a Jew. "To be ruled by my conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master, who is a kind o...

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... these women had experience that were unique that helped them become successful. In the case of Glikl and her Jewish heritage, made it very hard for her to survive in a Christian world without any kind of protection from the monarch. The German Jewish community, also known, as hochdeutshe Juden, became the center of Jewish life in Hamburg. A few Jewish German families ... the Christians as well. Also the term margin could be used to describe Glikl's experience with religion. With her having a proud self-image in her religion, while being engulfed in a Christian Europe. Her pride in her r...

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... Christianity" (Hughes 5). As the play unfolds, Shylock appears to be the villain, but Shakespeare ultimately shows that he is as much a victim of Christian hatred as he is a villain, thus demonstrating that all humans are equally flawed. Through his machinations to exact revenge against Antonio, Shylock is shown ... hopes to have revenge on Antonio both for his own humiliation and for the persecution that all Jews have faced from the Christians "I hate him for he is a Christian;. . . If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred...

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... religious belief and adopt another religion. Shakespeare's audience perceived that as a kindness to Shylock, and many probably would have thought the moneylender did not deserve a chance at salvation, which becoming a Christian would provide for him. The greatest flaw of Shylock is the fact that he does accept the conversion penalty; what he should do, if he had courage and commitment to ... his faith, is to admit religious martyrdom and say "Kill me if you will; I will never become a Christian!" But Shylock shows his true face by accepting the Christian conversion (Manley, par. 16). So...

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... with. A simple example of this harsh treatment could be when Shylock's daughter Jessica ran away with his ducats and jewels to marry Lorenzo, a Christian. To the central characters and the Elizabethan audience this was a completely highly amusing event. They believed that because Shylock was a Jew, he deserved ... and ivory, more between your bloods than there is between red wine and Rhenish." Shylock endured many prejudiced comments and the majority of the Christian Venetians referred to him as the "devil". When Salerio asked Shylock what good will come of taking a pound of Antonio's ...

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... performed usury as their source of wealth. Usury is the act of making a living from charging interest of loans of money. According to the Christian religion it was a sin to make money off the back of struggling people. This did not allow the Christians to charge interest for loans but ... for existing. Since the Jews came with the Normans when they invaded England, the native English people hated the Jews from the beginning. The Christian church adopted a theory to explain the existence of the Jewish community known as the Witness Theory. The theory states that God wanted there to ... N...

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... meaning of the passage. He examines the fierce debates between Christians and Jews, which took place in the aftermath of the Christian break from Judaism. After the Christian-Jewish schism, church writers recast dialogues of law and lore into descriptions of bitter controversies between Jesus and the Pharisees. These ... to Christianity from the second century onwards did not pose a massive threat to Jews. The threat came from these Jews who held some Christian beliefs, who rejected Oral Law and legal interpretation of the scribes (57). "The early rabbis were divided in their approach to...

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... Jerusalem for Christians is the site of many of the events in the life of Jesus Christ, who is the Messiah for the Christian religion. From the early fourth century, when Christianity became legal in the Roman empire, Jerusalem developed as a centre of Christian pilgrimage. ( Bahat, 1989, p.230) When Christianity was recognized as a legitimate religion by the Romans, Christians built churches and ... Christian shrines in Jerusalem. Jerusalem to Christians is where the first Christian community was formed. More importantly this is where Jesus Christ the Christian Messiah was tried, condem...

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... it has opened my eyes and given me a greater appreciation and acceptance of people who are of other religious persuasions. As a Christian I have never really given much thought to other religions. My primary concentration has been on being a Christian, a member of the Baptist Church. Following the teachings of the Pastor and elders in my Church has been my focus. However, my perspective ... worship all spiritual beings including, animals, gods, a Buddha, and other holy persons. Additionally, there is no "holy" book or transcriptions written by a Buddha. It is very easy to understand how...

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... daughter!' Here, they are laughing at Shylock's obsession with money, and the fact that he has lost his daughter Jessica because she has eloped with a Christian. As Solerio and Solanio are only minor, unimportant characters in the play, Shylock is seen as a victim because even they can make fun of him and ... are superior to him. Shylock's daughter, Jessica, elopes with Lorenzo, a Christian, and Shylock is left without some of his money, and alone. She has stolen all Shylock's jewels and money, and also his turquoise ring, which ... and Christianity was the favoured religion. The punish...

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... lord forgave her. That's when she started going to Metropolitan Church in Harlem. She started to believe that the Lord would forgive her for leaving her mother. " I started to become a Christian and the jew in me began to die. The Jew in me was dying anyway, but it truly died when my mother died." (McBride, 218) She became a devout ... Christian and never turned away from her faith throughout her life. She was as dedicated to the Christian faith as her family was to the Jewish faith. "There was no turning back after my mother died. I stayed on the black ... her, a white person in a bla...

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... . Language, custom, and even their looking, all became the source of the problems. In Islamic world, Gypsies were considered as Christian because of their different religion believes and culture; but their dark skin and foreign-looking faces made them "Islam" in Christian society. Many Europeans associated their dark skin with the devil; others claimed that they were expiating the sin committed by ... their ancestor. The similar tragedy also happened to Jews in the form of anti-Semitism. They were alienated in the early development of Christian theology, and was accused guilty of the dea...

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... lord forgave her. That's when she started going to Metropolitan Church in Harlem. She started to believe that the Lord would forgive her for leaving her mother. " I started to become a Christian and the jew in me began to die. The Jew in me was dying anyway, but it truly died when my mother died." (McBride, 218) She became a devout ... Christian and never turned away from her faith throughout her life. She was as dedicated to the Christian faith as her family was to the Jewish faith. "There was no turning back after my mother died. I stayed on the black ... her, a white person in a bla...

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... community. The Jews of this time were being oppressed by the Catholics of Spain, and the Muslims saved, or rather liberated the Jews from the Christian superiority in Spain. Though not all Jews converted to Islam, they pretty much all accepted the Muslims who had saved them. But, with their conquering ... a gentleman through act, not born a gentleman. One of the reasons that the Muslim religion was accepted and adopted by the Spaniards, both Jewish and Christian peoples is the five pillars of Faith. The first of these pillars is faith. What this is, is the belief in only one god. The Qu...

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... many different views on the afterlife that have been established by different people. Many Orthodox Jews believe that the souls of the righteous dead go to a place similar to the Christian heaven while others believe that everyone simply waits for the coming of the Messiah when they will be resurrected. Similarly Jews may believe that the souls of the wicked are ... the same place as Adam and Eve). There are many different descriptions of this place however no living person can comprehend what Gan Eden will be like, much like the Christian Heaven. While only the very righteous go to Gan...

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... 3,300 years. After the Romans conquered Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago. Jewish people were expelled and dispersed to the Diaspora. The land of Israel was ruled by Romans, Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and by the British Empire. Throughout centuries Jews seeked to return from the Diaspora to Israel. During the first half of the 20th century there ... make it their capital. In the Torah, Jerusalem is mentioned over many times and Zion (which usually means Jerusalem, sometimes the Land of Israel) is brought to attention numerous times. Christian Bible mentions Jer...

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... be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9). The historical fact is that Jesus fulfilled none of these messianic prophecies. CHRISTIANITY CONTRADICTS JEWISH THEOLOGY A. GOD AS THREE? The Christian idea of Trinity breaks God into three separate beings: The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost (Matthew 28:19). Contrast this to the Shema, the basis of Jewish belief ... fact, an individual is alive in every generation with the capacity to step into the role of the Messiah. (see Maimonides - Laws of Kings 11:3) C. INTERMEDIARY FOR PRAYER? Basic to Christian belief is the idea that prayer...

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... students signed a petition calling for the exclusion of Jews from government service, public and professional life (Gotlieb 29). These anti-Sematic ideologies stemmed from old-age Christian anti-Sematic beliefs. Jews were accused of murdering Christian children and using their blood in Jewish rituals. Anti-sematic views began to spread across Germany when Hitler published Mein Kampf, a book he wrote while he ... ...

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