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The oldest of these , which is still very widely practiced and tacitly accepted , though less frequently openly avowed , is the doctrine that might makes right . This doctrine was expounded with unsurpassed clarity by Thucydides ...
The oldest of these , which is still very widely practiced and tacitly accepted , though less frequently openly avowed , is the doctrine that might makes right . This doctrine was expounded with unsurpassed clarity by Thucydides ...
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... of Rabbi Eliezer there were still courts that would conceivably implement this law literally , or whether Rabbi Eliezer was thus declaring a procedure universally accepted by his colleagues to be a violation of the biblical law .
... of Rabbi Eliezer there were still courts that would conceivably implement this law literally , or whether Rabbi Eliezer was thus declaring a procedure universally accepted by his colleagues to be a violation of the biblical law .
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When those catastrophes came , they accepted them as due punishment for their transgressions and incorporated this interpretation of the tragedies that befell them into the synagogue liturgy so that it has become central Affinities ...
When those catastrophes came , they accepted them as due punishment for their transgressions and incorporated this interpretation of the tragedies that befell them into the synagogue liturgy so that it has become central Affinities ...
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| Title | The Ethical in the Jewish and American Heritage Volume 4 of Moreshet series : studies in Jewish history, literature and thought Volume 4 of Moreshet series |
| Author | Simon Greenberg |
| Publisher | Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0873340027, 9780873340021 |
| Length | 327 pages |
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