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Yom Kippur
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Silencing Jonah the Zealot on Yom Kippur
Prof. Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Yom Kippur Demands More Than Repentance
Prof. Rabbi Reuven Kimelman
In the Bible and History
Afflicting the Soul: A Day When Even Children Must Fast
Title Benyamim Tsedaka
Regarding Azazel and Homosexuals in the Same Parasha
Prof. Shawna Dolansky
An Ancient Precedent for the Yom Kippur War?
Dr. Nadav Sharon
The Historical Uniqueness and Centrality of Yom Kippur
Prof. Isaac Kalimi
Yom Ha-kippurim: The Biblical Significance
Prof. Baruch J. Schwartz
Recasting the Temple Purification Ritual as the Yom Kippur Service
Prof. Rabbi David Frankel
Does a Day Begin in the Evening?
Dr. Hacham Isaac S. D. Sassoon
The Scapegoat Ritual and Its Ancient Near Eastern Parallels
Dr. Noga Ayali-Darshan
Scapegoat: The Origins of the Crimson Thread
Dr. Noga Ayali-Darshan
Is Azazel a Goat, Place, Demon, or Deity?
Dr. Anna Angelini
Does an Intentional Sinner Attain Atonement?
Prof. Rabbi David Frankel
Crimson to White: Yom Kippur’s Miraculous Thread
Dr. Rabbi Joshua Kulp
The Goat for Azazel—Why Was It Really Pushed Off a Cliff?
Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin
Historical Dimensions
The Absence of Yom Kippur in Nevi’im and Ketuvim
Title Staff Editors
Yom Kippur: A Celebration of Liberty on the Jubilee Year
Title Staff Editors
Yom Kippur: A Festival of Dancing Maidens
Title Staff Editors
Does Ezekiel in 572 B.C.E. Know of Yom Kippur?
Title Staff Editors
Repentance and Fasting
Yom Kippur Demands More Than Repentance
Prof. Rabbi Reuven Kimelman
Yom Kippur and the Nature of Fasting
Dr. David Lambert
Why Jews Fast
Dr. Rabbi Zev Farber
Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich
Teshuva and “Returning to the LORD” - Are They One and the Same?
Dr. David Lambert
A Cognitive Confession (Vidui) for Yom Kippur
Title David Bar-Cohn
How Much Forgiveness Can We Expect From God?
Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler
Shoeless on Yom Kippur
Prof. Jason Radine
Confessing Sins You Didn’t Commit
Dr. Yitzhaq Feder
Of Lambs and Lambasting: The Message in Nathan’s Parable to David
Dr. Yael Landman
Prostration to God and Humans—A Biblical Practice
Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin
Is God (Un)Forgiving?
Title Harvey N. Bock
Liturgy
The Significance of Kol Nidre: A Footnote
Prof. René Bloch
Aleinu: God of All, or God of the Jews?
Prof. Rabbi Reuven Kimelman
Yom Kippur’s Seder Avodah Begins with God’s Creation of the World
Prof. Rabbi Dalia Marx
Yom Kippur: Afflicted but Angelic
Prof. Rabbi Laura Lieber
Mareh Kohen: Ben Sira’s Description of Simon the High Priest
Prof. Rabbi Dalia Marx
Abraham’s Prayer—and Ours: A Yom Kippur Illustration
Prof. David Stern
Mincha Torah Reading
Why Do We Read the Incest Prohibitions on Yom Kippur?
Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin
Book of Jonah
Silencing Jonah the Zealot on Yom Kippur
Prof. Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Jonah the Anti-Prophet
Prof. Jonathan Rabinowitz
Jonah’s Magical Mystery Tour of the Netherworld
Prof. Rabbi Rachel Adelman
Jonah’s Recalcitrant Prayer
Prof. Rabbi Jonathan Magonet
Why Does God Really Spare Nineveh?
Prof. Rabbi David Frankel
Why Does “Our” God Send Jonah to Save the Assyrians in Nineveh?
Rabbi Steven Bob
The Book of Jonah: God’s Didactic Lesson on Repentance
Prof. Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg
Jonah Struggles with God’s Compassion
Prof. Jack M. Sasson
The Book of Jonah: A Parody of the Northern Prophet Jonah Son of Amittai
Prof. Mordechai Cogan
Jonah Leaves Us with Questions, So on Yom Kippur We End with Micah
Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler
The Book of Jonah: God and Humanity Don’t Understand Each Other
Prof. Susan Niditch
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