Israel / the Jewish people
group · 2 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Israel · the Jews · the books of the Children of Israel · بنى اسرائيل · the Jewish people · the children of Israel · the earlier and greater people · the scriptures of the Children of Israel · the synagogue of Israel
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
The Israelite community whose books are cited as pre-Islamic scripture.
keep far from the ignorant man that you may find rest, for the carrying of sand and salt and iron is easier than a dwelling place with an ignorant man.
It is said in one of the books of the Children of Israel:
And it is said in one of the books of the Children of Israel:
Adversus Judaeos
The elder, 'greater' people descended from Israel, portrayed as guilty of idolatry, bound to the temporal law, and ultimately superseded and destroyed.
And so, since the people or nation of the Jews is the earlier in time and the greater through the grace of the first dignity bestowed in the law, while our people is understood to be the lesser in the age of time — having attained the knowledge of the divine mercy only in the last span of the world — beyond doubt, by the decree of the divine utterance, the earlier and greater people, that is the J …
For we know that even the Jews do not deny that Christ will come, inasmuch as they extend their hope to his coming.
For seven days, from wherever they take their beginning, must of necessity enclose the day of the Sabbath within them — a day on which not only did the priests work, but the city was made spoil at the edge of the sword by all the people of Israel.