* Blenkinsopp, Joseph, " Ezra-Nehemiah: A Commentary " ( Eerdmans, 1988 )

Scholars disagree, however, as to whether Ezekiel 38-39 was part of the original text ( compare, for example, Joseph Blenkinsopp, who believes it to be a late addition, and Daniel Block, who argues for its original status ).

Dr. Joseph Blenkinsopp

Dr. Joseph Blenkinsopp

* Isaiah 1 – 39, Joseph Blenkinsopp, 2000

* Isaiah 40 – 55, Joseph Blenkinsopp, 2002

* Isaiah 56 – 66, Joseph Blenkinsopp, 2003

* Joseph Blenkinsopp, Pentateuch: An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible.

Joseph Blenkinsopp, The Pentateuch: An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible ( 1992 )

Some scholars, including Joseph Blenkinsopp in his 1988 commentary on Ezra-Nehemiah, holding that the book is a late 2nd / early 1st century BC revision of Esdras and Esdras β, while others such as L. L.

Dennis Prager, author of popular books on Judaism and antisemitism, Nine Questions People ask about Judaism ( with Joseph Telushkin ) and Why the Jews?

A Kabbalistic tradition within Judaism is that the commonly-discussed messiah who will usher in a period of freedom and peace ( Messiah ben David ) will be preceded by Messiah ben Joseph, who will die sacrificing himself while uniting all of Israel in preparing the world for the arrival of Messiah ben David.

It is currently most famous for its 1997 declaration ( citing Israeli Chief Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog and Orthodox Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik ) that the Conservative and Reform movements are " not Judaism at all.

In his 1954 responsum on relations with non-Orthodox Judaism, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik developed the intellectual foundations for the way Modern Orthodox Judaism was to approach the issue in subsequent decades.

According to Joseph P. Schultz, modern scholarship " considers the Maccabean revolt less as an uprising against foreign oppression than as a civil war between the orthodox and reformist parties in the Jewish camp ", while John J. Collins writes that while the civil war between Jewish leaders led to the king's new policies, it is wrong to see the revolt as simply a conflict between Hellenism and Judaism, since " The revolt was not provoked by the introduction of Greek customs ( typified by the building of a gymnasium ) but by the persecution of people who observed the Torah by having their children circumcised and refusing to eat pork.

Duran believed that Judaism has three dogmas only: the existence of haShem, the Torah's Divine origin, and Reward and Punishment ; in this regard he was followed by Joseph Albo.

Although in the Book of Genesis Jacob mentions he would descend into the Sheol where he thought his son Joseph already was and the Witch of Endor summons the ghost of the deceased prophet Samuel at the behest of King Saul, modern scholars believe the concept of an immortal soul going to bliss or torment after death entered mainstream Judaism after the exile and existed throughout the Second Temple era, though both ‘ soul sleep ’ and ‘ soul death ’, were also held,

The predominant position of Orthodoxy on this issue is based on the position of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik ; he held that Judaism and Christianity are " two faith communities ( which are ) intrinsically antithetic ".

Some adherents of Messianic Judaism also regard themselves as part of Joseph on the basis that, regardless of any genetic connection which may or may not exist, they observe the Torah and interpret parts of the Tanakh in certain ways.

" On the other hand, Voltaire in his writings on religion was spiteful and intolerant of the practice of the Christian religion, and rabbi Joseph Telushkin has claimed that the most significant of Enlightenment hostility against Judaism was found in Voltaire.

* Joseph Soloveitchik Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews in the United States: Second article in a series on Responsa of Orthodox Judaism in the United States, 1954

However, traditionally in Judaism, Joseph is referred to with the quality of " Tzadik-Righteous ".

Extended accounts of the experiences of Enoch, containing striking parallels with the book of Moses, also circulated widely in Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity and first published after the death of Joseph Smith.

He corresponded with Saadya ben Joseph al-Fayyumi ( 882-942 ), one of the most influential figures in the medieval Judaism, prior to the his departure from Egypt.

In Romania in 1877, he converted back to Judaism and, having been turned down as a playwright by Goldfaden, who wrote all of his own company's plays, Horowitz ( along with Joseph Lateiner ) began to write plays for Israel Grodner and Sigmund Mogulesko after they left Abraham Goldfaden's troupe.

Hence, all the Biblical passages that appear to support intermarriages, such as that of Joseph to Asenath, and that of Ruth to Boaz, were regarded by the classical rabbis as having occurred only after the foreign spouse had converted to Judaism.

He is known to scholars of Judaism for his Magen Avraham commentary on the Orach Chayim section of Rabbi Joseph Karo's Shulchan Aruch, which he began writing in 1665 and finished in 1671.

* Bohak, Gideon, Joseph and Aseneth and the Jewish Temple in Heliopolis ( Early Judaism and Its Literature 10 ; Atlanta, Ga .: Scholars Press, 1996 ).

The editors, who included Solomon Schechter, Cyrus Adler and Joseph Jacobs, included faculty members of Hebrew Union College ( associated with Reform Judaism ), the Jewish Theological Seminary ( part of the Conservative Judaism movement ), and Dropsie College ( a graduate school not affiliated with any movement ).

x., several monographs in the Z. D. M. G. which developed his original thesis concerning Persian influence on Judaism, and his " Kritische Beleuchtung der Persischen Pentateuch-Uebersetzung des Jakob ben Joseph Tavus " ( Leipzig, 1871 ).

Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.

Maj. Gen. Polk ignored the problems of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson when he took command and, after Johnston took command, at first refused to comply with Johnston's order to send an engineer, Lt. Joseph K. Dixon, to inspect the forts.

He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance.

Among twenty enlistees was Joseph Behm, the first of the class to die in battle.

For Joseph and his supports of Imperial reform, besides encouraging any first buddings of pan-national pride that would unite his multi-lingual and ethnic subjects under one common language ; they also hoped to save a considerable amount of money in the process.

* 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

* 1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi.

In the Biblical account, unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan.

In the narrative, just prior to this test, when Joseph had first met all of his brothers ( but not identified himself to them ), he had held a feast for them ; the narrative heavily implies that Benjamin was Joseph's favorite brother, since he is overcome with tears when he first meets Benjamin in particular, and he gives Benjamin five times as much food as he apportions to the others.

* Becher ( meaning first born ), in reference to Joseph being the first child of Rachel

* Armand Joseph Dubernad ( 1741 – 1799 ), financial trader, consul general of the Holy Roman Empire, deputy, mayor and cofounder of the first Jacobin Club of Brittany.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

The first great master of the style was the composer Joseph Haydn.

Its first Lieutenant-Governor was Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres ( 1784 – 1787 ) and his successor was William Macarmick ( 1787 ).

Following in the footsteps of legendary English Joseph Grimaldi, Fox popularised the Humpty Dumpty stories throughout the land in the first half of the 19th century.

The term was first used in a 1994 book by Joseph Jenkins that advocates the use of this organic soil amendment.

This paper predates the first presentation by Joseph Fourier on the subject in 1807.

However, the details of the story are at best uncertain ( see for discussion of the original Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen source and the changes in other versions ); some authors, such as Joseph Rotman in his book A first course in Abstract Algebra, question whether it ever happened.

The first cement to consistently contain alite was made by Joseph Aspdin's son William in the early 1840s.

It was the Short Range Committee, chaired by Joseph Wegstein of the US National Bureau of Standards, that during the following months created a description of the first version of COBOL.