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Biblical studies is the academic study of what Christianity calls the Bible (including the New Testament and Old Testament, sometimes called the "Scriptures"), and what Judaism terms the Hebrew Bible (also called the Torah or Tanakh in Hebrew). Biblical studies is a branch of theology, but also draws on the disciplines of history, literary criticism, philology, and increasingly the social sciences. Practitioners of Biblical Studies do not necessarily have faith commitment to the texts they study. Biblical studies - In Ju ...

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• Biblical studies - Missions
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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz or Even Yisrael (born 1937) is a teacher, philosopher, social critic and prolific author who has been hailed by Time magazine as a "once-in-a-millennium scholar." His lifelong work in Jewish education earned him the Israel Prize, his country’s highest honor. He is affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic sect. Born in Jerusalem in 1937 to secular parents, Rabbi Steinsaltz studied physics and chemistry at the Hebrew University. Following graduation, he established several experimental schools and, at the a ...

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In 1905 he joined the Mizrachi movement, representing it at the Seventh Zionist Congress, voting against the "Uganda Scheme" to create a "temporary" Jewish "homeland in Uganda in East Africa as suggested by Great Britain. In 1911 he was appointed secretary of the world Mizrachi (Religious Zionism) movement. In 1915 became president of the U.S. Mizrachi. In 1925 he became a member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish National Fund devoted to financing the rebuilding of the Jewish homeland in the then British Mandate of Palest ...

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Meir Bar-Ilan, Meir Bar-Ilan - Youth, Meir Bar-Ilan - Mizrachi movement, Meir Bar-Ilan - Scholarship, Meir Bar-Ilan - Bar-Ilan University

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In a 16 August 1995 interview for Israel Radio, Aryeh Yitzhaki of Bar Ilan University, who had worked previously in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) history department, accused a reconnaissance unit, known as Shaked (Almond), of which then housing minister in the Labour government Binyamin Ben-Eliezer had been acting commander, of killing hundreds of Egyptians who had abandoned their weapons and fled into the desert during the 1967 war. Yitzhaki claimed that after the war, he conducted a study proving that in six or seven separate inci ...

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Accusations on the Six-Day War, Accusations on the Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Accusations on the Six-Day War - U.S. and British combat support, Accusations on the Six-Day War - U.S. and British non-combat support, Accusations on the Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Accusations on the Six-Day War - Footnotes

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Six-Day War - Operation Focus. Israel's first and most important move was a pre-emptive attack on the Egyptian Air Force. It was by far the largest and the most modern of all the Arab air forces, sporting about 450 combat aircraft, all of them Soviet-built and relatively new. Of particular concern to the Israelis were the 30 TU-16 Badger medium bombers, capable of inflicting heavy damage to Israeli military and civilian centers. [ ...

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Six-Day War, Six-Day War - Background, Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war, Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies, Six-Day War - Warfare, Six-Day War - Operation Focus, Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Six-Day War - West Bank, Six-Day War - Golan Heights, Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea, Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation, Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims, Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Six-Day War - U.S. and British combat support, Six-Day War - U.S. and British non-combat support, Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Six-Day War - Footnotes

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Critics dismiss NGO Monitor as politically motivated and biased. At Political Research Associates, Jean Hardisty and Elizabeth Furdon describe it as a "conservative NGO watchdog group, NGO Monitor, which focuses on perceived threats to Israeli interests", adding that "The ideological slant of NGO Monitor's work is unabashedly pro-Israeli. It does not claim to be a politically neutral examination of NGO activities and practices."[12] Yacoub Kahlen and Robert E. Foxsohn say that NGO Monitor should not be taken seriously, accusing it of ...

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NGO Monitor, NGO Monitor - Praise of NGO Monitor, NGO Monitor - Criticism of NGO Monitor, NGO Monitor - Staff, NGO Monitor - Organizations reviewed by NGO Monitor

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In Christianity, the theological interpretation of Biblical passages is called biblical hermeneutics. Other branches of Bible study aim instead at elucidating the provenance, authorship, and chronological order of Biblical texts. This is a branch of philology more than theology, and sometimes comes into conflict with theology. "Higher criticism" and its findings, including the well known documentary hypothesis which suggests that the Bible was compiled from the writings of several different hands, and the work of the Jesus Seminar, which att ...

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Biblical studies, Biblical studies - In Judaism, Biblical studies - In Christianity, Biblical studies - Background, Biblical studies - Principles of Biblical interpretation, Biblical studies - Hebrew and Greek languages, Biblical studies - Various studies in the books of the Bible, Biblical studies - Non core-related studies, Biblical studies - Homiletics, Biblical studies - Missions, Biblical studies - Other service related disciplines, Biblical studies - Further higher studies and the status of studies

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There are theories that the entire 1967 War was a botched attempt by the Soviet Union to create tensions between West Germany and Arab countries by highlighting West Germany's support for Israel. In her September 2003 article in the Middle East Review of International Affairs, Isabella Ginor detailed Soviet GRU documents proposing such a plan and further detailing faulty intelligence fed to Egypt claiming troop buildups near the Golan Heights in Syria. See also:

Accusations on the Six-Day War, Accusations on the Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Accusations on the Six-Day War - U.S. and British combat support, Accusations on the Six-Day War - U.S. and British non-combat support, Accusations on the Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Accusations on the Six-Day War - Footnotes

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In a 1993 interview for the Johnson Presidential Library oral history archives U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara revealed that a Carrier battle group, the U.S. 6th Fleet, already on a training exercise near Gibraltar was re-positioned towards the eastern Mediterranean to defend Israel. The administration "thought the situation was so tense in Israel that perhaps the Syrians, fearing Israel would attack them, or the Russians supporting the Syrians might wish to redress the balance of power and might attack Israel". The Soviets learned ...

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Accusations on the Six-Day War, Accusations on the Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Accusations on the Six-Day War - U.S. and British combat support, Accusations on the Six-Day War - U.S. and British non-combat support, Accusations on the Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Accusations on the Six-Day War - Footnotes

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Describing it as a "friend of Israel", the Jewish Watch Dog site calls it "a branch of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs that was founded to promote accountability, and advance a vigorous discussion on the reports and activities of humanitarian NGOs in the framework of the Arab-Israeli conflict."[9] David Bedein of David Horowitz' magazine FrontPageMag.com describes it as a "watchdog organization".[10] NGO Monitor's reports appear regularly on the "Around the World" section of the "Hotbeds of Prejudice" su ...

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NGO Monitor, NGO Monitor - Praise of NGO Monitor, NGO Monitor - Criticism of NGO Monitor, NGO Monitor - Staff, NGO Monitor - Organizations reviewed by NGO Monitor

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The dramatic events of the Six Day War have given rise to a number of accusations of atrocities and controversial claims and theories. Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war. In a 16 August 1995 interview for Israel Radio, Aryeh Yitzhaki of Bar Ilan University, who had worked previously in the IDF history department, accused a reconnaissance unit, known as Shaked (Almond), of which then housing minister in the Labour government Binyamin Ben-Eliezer had been acting commander, of kill ...

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Six-Day War, Six-Day War - Background, Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war, Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies, Six-Day War - Warfare, Six-Day War - Operation Focus, Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Six-Day War - West Bank, Six-Day War - Golan Heights, Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea, Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation, Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims, Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Six-Day War - U.S. and British combat support, Six-Day War - U.S. and British non-combat support, Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Six-Day War - Footnotes

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Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war. The 1956 Suez War represented for Egypt a military defeat, but a political victory. Heavy diplomatic pressure forced Israel to withdraw its military from the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip. After the 1956 war, Egypt agreed to the stationing of a UN peacekeeping force in the Sinai, UNEF (United Nations Emergency Force), to keep that border region demilitarized, and prevent guerrillas from crossing the border into Israel. As a result the border between Egypt and Israel qu ...

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Six-Day War, Six-Day War - Background, Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war, Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies, Six-Day War - Warfare, Six-Day War - Operation Focus, Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Six-Day War - West Bank, Six-Day War - Golan Heights, Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea, Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation, Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims, Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Six-Day War - U.S. and British combat support, Six-Day War - U.S. and British non-combat support, Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Six-Day War - Footnotes

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By June 10, Israel had completed its final offensive in the Golan Heights and a ceasefire was signed the following day. Israel had seized the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank of the Jordan River (including East Jerusalem), and the Golan Heights. Overall, Israel's territory grew by a factor of 3, including about one million Arabs placed under Israel's direct control in the newly captured territories. Israel's strategic depth grew to at least 300 kilometers in the south, 60 kilometers in the east and 20 kilometers of extremely rugged terrain in the north, a securit ...

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Six-Day War, Six-Day War - Background, Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war, Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies, Six-Day War - Warfare, Six-Day War - Operation Focus, Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Six-Day War - West Bank, Six-Day War - Golan Heights, Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea, Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation, Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims, Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Six-Day War - U.S. and British combat support, Six-Day War - U.S. and British non-combat support, Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Six-Day War - Footnotes

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Biblical studies among Jews in an academic setting is fairly new. Historically, and for those Jews maintaining Jewish traditions (particularly the Haredi Jews and Hasidic Jews), the term "Bible Study" is not used, rather the term of choice was, and remains, "Torah Study", which included the study of Torah, Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, or Jewish law, Midrashic commentators and rabbinic literature. Jews have traditionally done their religious studies at home with their parents, or institutionally in a local yeshiva (larger Talmudic school), beth midrash (a smaller school), a kollel (post-graduate ...

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Biblical studies, Biblical studies - In Judaism, Biblical studies - In Christianity, Biblical studies - Background, Biblical studies - Principles of Biblical interpretation, Biblical studies - Hebrew and Greek languages, Biblical studies - Various studies in the books of the Bible, Biblical studies - Non core-related studies, Biblical studies - Homiletics, Biblical studies - Missions, Biblical studies - Other service related disciplines, Biblical studies - Further higher studies and the status of studies

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Some Arabs believe that the United States and Britain provided more support for the Israelis than the American and British governments admit. Claims of American and British combat support for Israel began on the second day of the war. Radio Cairo and the government newspaper Al-Ahram made a number of claims, among them: that U.S. and British carrier-based aircraft flew sorties against the Egyptians; that U.S. aircraft based in Libya attacked Egypt; and that U.S. spy satellites provided imagery to Israel. Both Syria and Jordan broadcas ...

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Accusations on the Six-Day War, Accusations on the Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Accusations on the Six-Day War - U.S. and British combat support, Accusations on the Six-Day War - U.S. and British non-combat support, Accusations on the Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Accusations on the Six-Day War - Footnotes

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