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REL 224 Judaism

This guide serves to support students enrolled in REL 224, Judaism.

Advanced Searching

Question Mark (?) 

  • This is useful when there are spelling variations for a word, and you want to search for all variations at once.  

Behavio?r = Behavior and Behaviour 

Bei? Din= Beit Din and Beis Din

(Rabbinic court involved in matters of Jewish law, including conversion and traditional divorce procedures.)

Asterisk (*) 

  • Truncation is useful when you want to search for variable endings of a root word.
  • Educat* = Educate, education, educator, educating, etc.

Quotation Marks 

  • Use quotation marks to search for exact phrases and names of people.
  • "Biblical law”  
  • "Shmuel of Nehardea"

Advanced Searching in Scout

Part of the Roll Tide Research series module, “Navigating and Using Scout for Research”, this video demonstrates how to use the advanced search features in Scout.

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