the monotheistic religion of the Jews.
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Did The Maharal of Prague claim this verse was recursive?
Today I encountered a claim that Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel (known as The Maharal of Prague) said that the statement "So God created mankind in his own image"
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
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Was the Pentateuch dated back to the second millenium B.C.E?
This source claims, and walks through proof, that the 5 Books of Moses (Pentateuch) date all the way back to at least the era of Joshua ~1200 years B.C.E. Is this really true?
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Did Yitzhak Kaduri leave a note implying the Jewish Messiah is named Yehoshua?
Yitzhak Kaduri was a renown rabbi who died in 2006.
As explained in the above Wikipedia page, there are claims that he left a note to be opened after his death. The note, when decoded as an acrostic, gives the name Yehoshua, and that is being…
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Were the Jews the first to believe in monotheism?
Wikipedia suggests that Akhenaten (who died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC) was "The first claims of global supremacy of a specific god".
Monotheism - Origin and development says,
In the cities of the Ancient Near East, each city had a local patron…
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Are Jewish students over-represented at Harvard University?
According to David Duke:
Jews are dramatically over-represented in comparison with every ethnic/racial group in America. In comparison with European Americans, Jews are almost 47 times more represented than their population would merit. That’s…
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