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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The High Priest
Aaron and his sons were chosen by God to be priests, Aaron being the first high-priest and Eleazar his successor; so that, though the Scripture does not say so explicitly, the succession of the eldest son to the office of high-priest became a law.
High Priest) admits as genuine, not interpolations, as some think, by which the "later office may have had a historic foreshadowing".
Since the death of the high-priest marked an epoch in the history of Israel, the homicides were then allowed to return home from the city where they had found a refuge from vengeance (Numbers 35:25, 28).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12407b.htm   (1445 words)

  
 Messiah Truth: A Jewish Response to Missionary Groups
They are typically very pro-Israel and include an unusually high number of Jewish symbols -- the Magen David, Torah, talleisim, shofars, yarmulkes, mezzuzahs, Shabbat candles, and use of Hebrew and Yiddish language -- to assure prospective converts that they are not renouncing Judaism by accepting Jesus.
One of the most significant differences between Judaism and Christianity (or Messianic Judaism) is that the latter rejects the laws that God gave to Moses to teach to the children of Israel.
In the Tanach, moshiach is used 38 times: two patriarchs, six high priests, once for Cyrus, 29 Israelite kings such as Saul and David.
www.messiahtruth.com /response.html   (3947 words)

  
 Jesus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The Greek form is a liberal translation of Messiah from Hebrew mashiach (&1502;&1513;&1497;&1495;) or Aramaic m'shikha (&1502;&1513;&1497;&1495;&1488;), a word which occurs often in the Hebrew Bible and typically refers to the "high priest" or "king".
All of the Land of Israel belonged to the Roman Empire at the time given for Jesus' birth, but it was directly ruled by King Herod the Great.
After Herod's death in 4 BC, Judea and Samaria were combined into the Roman province of Palestina, ruled by the Jewish High Priest under the supervision of a Roman procurator.
jesus.iqnaut.net   (5474 words)

  
 Cacciaguida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Actually what Israel should do is what Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus, did to hold down turnout at opposition rallies just before their last "election" -- get everyone's cellphone number and text-message them a warning.
EDITED TO ADD: Good to see Al-Jazeera is also in high dudgeon against those "right-wing army officers" and "their their revolt that led to war 70 years ago." Many of Franco's well-wishers called his campaign a "crusade," and it's mighty thoughty of Al-Jazeera to take notice.
For some of the reason, unknown to the Manolo, this shoe it has the cachet with the bohemians and the pot-smoking hippies of the crunchiness.
www.cacciaguida.blogspot.com   (3223 words)

  
 Book Abbreviations
[HI:IIBP] Israel in the Biblical Period: Institutions, Festivals, Ceremonies, Rituals.
[HI:KMIANE] King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East.
[HI:SSAI] The Social Structure of Ancient Israel: The Institution of the Family from the Settlement to the End of the Monarchy.
www.christian-thinktank.com /bookabs.html   (10892 words)

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