One Salome is mentioned in the apocryphal Gospel of James as an associate of the unnamed midwife present at Christ’s birth.

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World / How I answer one of the most bad-faith questions any Palestinian can be asked. Mohammed El-Kurd In 1973, a British ...

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Jews and Jewish tradition have always paid special attention to those who stand with us. Perhaps that’s why a single verse near the end of Parshat Beha’alotecha stands out, in ...

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To Protestant Christians, the following books are apocryphal: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, Additions to Esther, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, Sirach, Epistle of Jeremiah, Song of ...