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Gerson D. Cohen
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BIOGRAPHY

Chancellor, 1972–86; Jacob H. Schiff Professor of History, 1970–86, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York City. Editor and translator of Abraham ibn Daud's Sefer ha-Kabbala.

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Jerusalem: Western Wall, Temple Mount
Judaism, monotheistic religion developed among the ancient Hebrews. Judaism is characterized by a belief in one transcendent God who revealed himself to Abraham, Moses, and the Hebrew prophets and by a religious life in accordance with Scriptures and rabbinic traditions. Judaism is the complex…
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