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    Abraham Geiger (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם גַיְיגֶר‎ ʼAvrāhām Gayger; 24 May 1810 – 23 October 1874) was a German rabbi and scholar who is considered the founding...
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  • 011 Abraham Geiger College is a rabbinic seminary at the University of Potsdam in Potsdam, Germany, founded in 1999 and named after Abraham Geiger, a rabbi...
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    Augsburg – Germany – 2008. The 2008 Abraham Geiger Award, named after liberal thinker of Judaism Abraham Geiger (1810–1874), was conferred upon Prince...
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    origins of Reform Judaism lie in mid-19th-century Germany, where Rabbi Abraham Geiger and his associates formulated its early principles, attempting to harmonize...
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    2013). "Abraham Geiger and the Hamburg Gebetbuchstreit of 1842". In Schulte, Christoph (ed.). Jüdische Existenz in der Moderne: Abraham Geiger und die...
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    the 1860s Abraham Geiger suggested that the parable of Lazarus in Luke 16 preserved a Jewish legend and that Lazarus represented Abraham's servant Eliezer...
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  • status in society in the initial period of their existence. According to Abraham Geiger, the Sadducee sect of Judaism derived their name from that of Zadok...
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    means "to rule" is "widely recognized". Since it was first proposed by Abraham Geiger in 1857, some scholars have argued that the word "Moloch" has been altered...
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    in it an Egyptian invocation to the Godhead, meaning "hurt me not". Abraham Geiger sees in it a Grecized form of ha-berakhah, "the blessing", a meaning...
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  • Geiger is a German, Hungarian or French surname. In the German language Geiger means "violin player." People with this surname include: Abraham Geiger...
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