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This silver, repoussé, punched, engraved, and cast Torah shield, decorated with flowers and bunches of grapes, from Metz, France, is inscribed in Hebrew: C[rown of] T[orah]; Festival of Shavuot.
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Artist Unknown
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Metz, Kingdom of France (Metz, France)
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17th–18th Century
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This bronze, cast, and gilt Hanukkah lamp from France is decorated with the head of a warrior wearing a laurel wreath, most likely meant to depict Judah Maccabee, leader of the uprising against the…
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17th Century
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Religious forces are in fact only transfigured collective forces, that is, moral forces; they are made of ideas and feelings that the…
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Émile Durkheim
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1911
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The only essential difference between Catholicism and Protestantism is that the second permits free inquiry to a far greater degree than the first. Of course, Catholicism by the very fact that it is…
Contributor:
Émile Durkheim
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1897