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The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 12 Volumes is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Jewish people have been connected with some of the important movements in history. The early histories of the world’s most influential monotheistic religions are connected with the Hebrew Bible. The Jewish Encyclopedia gives a comprehensive, systematized, and succinct account of the Jewish people—their history and literature, social and intellectual life, and their contribution to the world’s...

thereby forfeiting their angelic dignity, were degraded and condemned to a life of mischief or shame on earth or in a place of punishment—is wide-spread. Indications of this belief, behind which probably lies the symbolizing of an astronomical phenomenon, the shooting stars, are met with in Isa. 14:12 (comp. Job 38:31, 32; see CONSTELLATIONS). But it is in apocalyptic writings that this notion assumes crystallized definiteness and is brought into relations with the theological problem of the origin
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