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    Abraham Geiger (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם גַיְיגֶר‎ ʼAvrāhām Gayger; 24 May 1810 – 23 October 1874) was a German rabbi and scholar who is considered the founding...
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  • 011 Abraham Geiger College is a rabbinic seminary at the University of Potsdam in Potsdam, Germany, founded in 1999 and named after Abraham Geiger, a rabbi...
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    Augsburg – Germany – 2008. The 2008 Abraham Geiger Award, named after liberal thinker of Judaism Abraham Geiger (1810–1874), was conferred upon Prince...
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    origins of Reform Judaism lie in mid-19th-century Germany, where Rabbi Abraham Geiger and his associates formulated its early principles, attempting to harmonize...
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    adjunct full professor at the University of Potsdam and rector at its Abraham Geiger College, which was founded in 1999. On 14 September 2006, Homolka ordained...
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    Ludwig Geiger (born Lazarus Abraham Geiger, also called Ludwig Moritz Philipp Geiger; 5 June 1848 – 9 February 1919) was a German author and historian...
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    2013). "Abraham Geiger and the Hamburg Gebetbuchstreit of 1842". In Schulte, Christoph (ed.). Jüdische Existenz in der Moderne: Abraham Geiger und die...
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    Remembered". Jwa.org. Retrieved 14 September 2016. "Abraham Geiger Kolleg: Women in the rabbinate". Abraham-geiger-kolleg.de. Archived from the original on 29...
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    the 1860s Abraham Geiger suggested that the parable of Lazarus in Luke 16 preserved a Jewish legend and that Lazarus represented Abraham's servant Eliezer...
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    also the most senior rabbinic figure associated with the UPJ, and the Abraham-Geiger-Kolleg serves as rabbinical seminary since 1999. Liberal – known internationally...
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  • status in society in the initial period of their existence. According to Abraham Geiger, the Sadducee sect of Judaism derived their name from that of Zadok...
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  • – 1655), Greek rabbi, author, physician Abraham Geiger (1810–1874), German Reform Judaism rabbi Alain Geiger (born 1960), Swiss international football...
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    progressive congregations. Reform Judaism began in Germany, led by Rabbi Abraham Geiger. It stagnated considerably after the 1840s. In 1898, German Liberal...
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    means "to rule" is "widely recognized". Since it was first proposed by Abraham Geiger in 1857, some scholars have argued that the word "Moloch" has been altered...
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    Verhältniss zum Sohar, Leipsic, 1851; Grätz, Gesch. vii. 231 et seq.; Abraham Geiger, Das Judenthum und Seine Geschichte, iii. 75 et seq., Breslau, 1871;...
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  • Boēthosians, they are the sectarians who are anathemised in our prayer. Abraham Geiger, a 19th-century German scholar who founded Reform Judaism, posited a...
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    lineage ascribed to Zadok is a later, anachronistic interpolation. Abraham Geiger was of the opinion that the Sadducee ("Tzadoki" in Mishnaic pronunciation)...
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  • Kappa. Her monograph Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (1998, University of Chicago Press) won the Abraham Geiger Prize of the Geiger College in Germany...
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    much. In the first half of the 20th century, most scholars followed Abraham Geiger and Gustaf Dalman in thinking that Aramaic became a spoken language...
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    came from a cow-worshiping people, giving his name as Musa bin Zafar. Abraham Geiger proposed the idea that Samiri is a corruption of Samael, the name of...
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  • foundational work of modern Quranic studies by Abraham Geiger. It was originally written in Latin to earn Geiger a doctorate at the University of Marburg,...
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  • the Hellenization of the priesthood then taking place in Jerusalem. Abraham Geiger (1857), the founder of Reform Judaism, was of the opinion that the Sadducee...
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    enthusiastic supporter of Abraham Geiger, who had no doubt inspired the bequest; and it was probably the founder's intention that Geiger should be the president...
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  • Encyclopedia Talmudit entry "Divrei Soferim"). In an interesting twist, Abraham Geiger posits that the Sadducees were the more hidebound adherents to an ancient...
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    the dialogue between the great world religions" 2009 Abraham Geiger prize from the Abraham-Geiger-Kolleg at the University of Potsdam 2017 Asteroid 190139...
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  • history. University of California Libraries. London : Trübner & Co. Rabbi Abraham Geiger, "Vor Hundert Jahren," Brunswick, 1899 "Jews, Missions to the". www...
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  • 18 unmarried Jews who had recently converted to Christianity (Rabbi Abraham Geiger, "Vor Hundert Jahren," Brunswick, 1899). In the reign of Frederick William...
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    Jewish nationalism in the form of the Zionist Hibbat Zion movement. Abraham Geiger and Samuel Holdheim were two founders of the conservative movement in...
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  • in it an Egyptian invocation to the Godhead, meaning "hurt me not". Abraham Geiger sees in it a Grecized form of ha-berakhah, "the blessing", a meaning...
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    enemies on both liberal and orthodox sides, and such was the case with Abraham Geiger and Samson Raphael Hirsch, respectively. Frankel was chosen president...
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