Lacerated Lips and Lush Landscapes: Constructing This-Worldly Theological Identities in the Otherworld

When Irenaeus juxtaposed tradition and heresy, he moved away from the Pauline usage, which centered primarily upon incorrect behavior (See 1 Cor 11: 19, Gal 5 :20). lrenaeus\u27 definition of heresy, however, does not indicate that all early Christians prioritized belief over behavior, or even maintained orthodoxy and orthopraxis as separate categories. In the otherworldly spaces of the apocryphal apocalypses doxa and praxis seem to be intertwined, and little or no distinction is made between belief and behavior. Instead, in the Otherworld the categories of primary importance are righteous/unrighteous, good/evil, Christian/Other. The Otherworld is a place in which sins can be sorted and the identity markers which might have been overlooked or are difficult to see in this world can be seen more clearly. And yet, we are left to wonder how that otherworldly clarity maps onto the lived experience of the ancient audiences of these apocalypses. Thus, we will begin by reflecting upon the ability of these apocalyptic texts to create (and recreate) Christian identity by either describing real categories of people, or by creating the categories themselves, and so prescribing reality. In each of the apocalypses that we will discuss the reader learns that his or her identity is determined for all of eternity by the choices that are made in this world. In this regard, each depiction of the otherworld establishes its own identity markers, isolating certain beliefs and behaviors as distinctively Christian. What is startling about the definitions of Christian belief and practice that emerge from each text is that they are rather expansive, covering far more territory than any creed or council. Our discussion will demonstrate that while creedal definitions of orthodoxy ( as well as the apocalyptic definitions of correct belief that mirror them) were often aimed at labeling specific groups as other, the apocalyptic depictions of the otherworld were attempting to be either exhaustive or open-ended, imagining a host of practices that could be used to frame Christian identity. In these imaginary spaces, the theological identities that were crafted could not simply be summarized by simple binaries like orthodoxy/heterodoxy, oppressed/oppressor, or even sinner/sinless. Instead, the apocalyptic visions, which on the surface seem to deal in dichotomies, paradoxically proliferate a range of Christian practices

Hebrew Technical School for Girls, correspondence

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National Center for the Hebrew Language (NCHL), undated, 1906, 1993-2004 1995-2003

Contains records on the formation, mission, vision, and activities of the National Center for the Hebrew Language, as reflected in organizational documents (including minutes), event programs and announcements, publications (including the NCHL newsletter, Ivrit Now), photographs, promotional literature (including press releases), media coverage, and the NCHL website.Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); National Center for the Hebrew Language (NCHL), records; I-526; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.Gift of the National Center for the Hebrew Language donated Executive Director Joseph Lowin inFinding Aid available in Reading Room and on Internet.far0315AJHS.2005.002. Not accessioned in ALEPH. No Donor Record in ALEPH

Tarbuth Foundation Collection. 1976

This collection contains two documents from The Tarbuth Foundation, which promoted Jewish culture: a 1976 catalogue of a special exhibit: "The Tarbuth Foundation Presents Cultural Pluralism, America's Gift to Jewish History" and a document entitled "Tentative Outline for Exhibit "Cultural Pluralism - America's Gift to Jewish History"."The original German language inventory is available in the folder.Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize

Microenvironment in photoinduced electron transfer: time-domain EPR of model systems related to photosynthesis

SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: F97B1127+a / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman

World Jewry beyond 2000 The demographic propspects

Also numbered Frank Green lecture series no. 3Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:6219.580(2) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

The failure of Jewish assimilation in Polish lands and its consequences

The third Goldman lectureSIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:6219.580(4) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

From Czar to Glasnost Yiddish in the Soviet Union

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Israel and the Diaspora Roles and responsibilities

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