--- kwildgen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> All these questions/comments about carrying/wearing prayers, etc.
> remind
> me of phylacteries still, I believe, in use among orthodox Jews and
> dating back at least to the time of Jesus. Any connections or is the
> connection so obvious it's not worth mentioning?
> Just wondering,
> K Wildgen
Only to note that the practice of wearing scriptural texts about one's
person is enjoined in the Bible itself: "You shall fasten them on your
hand as a sign and on your forehead as a circlet; you shall write them
on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." (Deuteronomy 6:8-9).
One has to be wary therefore of dismissing such practices as mere
superstition.
Oriens.
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