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Hebraism

noun
1.
Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud.  Synonyms: Jewish religion, Judaism.






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"Hebraism" Quotes from Famous Books



... But the mourner's heart loathes reason and he prays for his dead instinctively like the so-termed "Protestant." Amongst the latter, by the bye, I find four great Sommites, (1) Paul of Tarsus who protested against the Hebraism of Peter; (2) Mohammed who protested against the perversions of Christianity; (3) Luther who protested against Italian rule in Germany, and lastly (4) one (who shall be nameless) that protests against the ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton

... that was imperiled by the misrule of a Claudius and a Nero. The war against the Romans was then not merely a struggle for national liberty, but, equally with the wars of the Maccabees against the Seleucids, an episode in the more vital conflict between Hebraism and paganism, between material force and the ardent passion ...
— Josephus • Norman Bentwich

... Hebraism, says Matthew Arnold, is the spirit which obeys the mandate, "walk by your light"; Hellenism the spirit which remembers the other, "have a care your light be not darkness." The former prefers doing to thinking, the latter is bent on finding the truth it loves. Carlyle is a Hebraist ...
— Thomas Carlyle - Biography • John Nichol



Words linked to "Hebraism" :   Orthodox Judaism, organized religion, Jewry, Conservative Judaism, religion, faith, Jewish Orthodoxy, Reform Judaism



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