Historians, however, believe that the very notion of conversion with a mikvah is postbiblical.

The best Jewish scholarship concludes "rabbi" is postbiblical, used no earlier than the first Christian century.

She comments that a postbiblical (sic)feminist stance 'too quickly concedes that women have no authentic history within biblical religion'.

Postbiblical Jews and Judaism were declared, on supposedly objective grounds, to be uncreative or even subversive.

Boundaries of gender and culture in postbiblical Judaism and medieval Islam (Univ.of Chicago 1993).

It is not the same as the older flat Earth model implied in some mythology, as was the case with the biblical and postbiblical Latin cosmology.

Legacies of Biblical and Postbiblical Vocabularies of Violence.

There are many traditions within Islam originating from traditions within the Hebrew Bible or from postbiblical Jewish traditions.

Courses were once again taught in classical and modern Hebrew, Aramaic, the Bible, Jewish religious and philosophical thought, and Hebrew literature from the postbiblical period to the present.

In postbiblical usage, "Christ" became viewed as a name-one part of "Jesus Christ"-but originally it was a title ("Jesus the Anointed").

According to American historian John Esposito, the Semitic cultures in general permitted polygamy (for example, the practice could be found in biblical and postbiblical Judaism); it was particularly a common practice among Arabs, especially among nobles and leaders.

Abner's most distinguishing characteristic was his use of postbiblical literature, including hundreds of Talmudic and Midrashic sources as well as much medieval Jewish and Arabic (in translation) literature, all in an effort to prove the truth of Christianity.

"Talmudic" originally signified nothing more than "of or pertaining to the Talmud" ( Oxford English Dictionary ), the Talmud being the postbiblical Rabbinic code of Jewish laws and interpretations that is the source of authority in Orthodox Judaism.

The most common post-biblical use is similar to that of the English word "human".

The school offered instruction in biblical and post-biblical Jewish history.

The Jewish conception of a flat earth is found in both biblical and post-biblical times.

The same proves true of the post-biblical history of Christianity.

They also set the stage for later understanding development of Trinitarian theology early in the post-biblical era.

Knowledge of the biblical period is mostly from literary references in the Bible and post-biblical sources.

It has been left to post-biblical thinkers to strive to order these stories and symbols into some theoretical framework.

Let them be Bible characters or well known Christians of post-Biblical times.

This expression, as we shall see presently, post-Biblical legislation applies to death by stoning.

The following post-Biblical writings have to be considered:

He made radical innovations in diction and style, while employing the full range of post-biblical Hebrew.

In post-biblical times rabbinic law hedged these penalties with so many conditions that capital punishment became a thing of the past.

But the modern language's syntax is post-biblical.

The development of the syntax of post-biblical Hebrew.

According to post-Biblical legend, he is the "scribe of righteousness" and inventor of writing.

Through Buxtorf a serious attempt was made to understand the post-Biblical literature, and many of the most important works were translated into Latin.

Avoid disparaging biblical or post-biblical Judaism with the object of extolling Christianity.

In post-Biblical Judaism, certain angels came to take on a particular significance and developed unique personalities and roles.

He divides the whole into two chief groups, Biblical and post-Biblical, and each group again into ten subdivisions.

The most obvious parallels are perhaps with the Biblical and post-Biblical narrative of John the Baptist.

Each volume contains Encyclopedic entries reflecting the unfolding of the different versions of a certain story, from post-biblical era to the 20th century.

During the post-Biblical period, the name was also adopted by Aramaic and Greek-speaking Jews.

A large number of parables are found in post-Biblical literature, in Talmud and Midrash.

He concludes that in biblical and post-biblical Judaism there are no anti-black or racist sentiments, a finding that some scholars dispute.

And yet, the reality is that very few characters in Tenakh are described as having this condition, and even fewer in post-Biblical literature.