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| To pass over the same ground repeatedly |
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| To bind, to tie, to act with care |
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| Exploring inner human life |
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| Explore human encounters with the divine |
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| Sanskrit phrase meaning the eternal teaching/law |
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| Brahma (Creator), Vishnu (Preserver), Shiva (Destroyer) |
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| the invisible particle of divinity in all living beings |
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| Hindu holy book of teachings |
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| Offered milk rice porridge because she mistook Buddha for a tree god |
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| The Buddha, lived 563-483 BCE, born in Nepal |
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| Where Buddha sat for 49 days and was tempted by evil Mara |
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1. Dukkha (Life is suffering)
2. Tanha (The cause of suffering is desire)
3. Remove desire to remove suffering
4. Remove desire through the eightfold path |
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| View, thought, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, concentration |
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| 8-spoked wheel representing the eightfold path |
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| suffering, lack of permanent soul (anatta/anatman), impermanence (anicca) |
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| To blow out (like a candle), to cease to exist |
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| In the Buddha, in the dharma, and in the sangha (community of monks) |
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| "Old Fellow", founder of Taoism, born 604 BCE |
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| 'The Way and its Power', the Taoist manuscript |
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| Confucius (first teacher), born in 551 BCE, same time as the Buddha |
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| Old man, sick man, dead man, monk |
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| Five Constant Relationships |
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| Children look up to parents, Wife looks up to husband, Younger sibling looks up to older sibling, Younger friend looks up to older friend, Subject looks up to Ruler |
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| First five books of Hebrew scripture |
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| Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy |
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| The Hebrew word for 'teaching' or 'law' |
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| How many Jewish people are alive today? |
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| 14 million, with 6-10 million Jews lost in the Holocaust |
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| The patriarch of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Not a founder, just an ancestor |
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| YHWH, meant to be unpronounceable because God is incomprehensible. |
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| 10 words--the Ten Commandments |
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| The second temple built, was surrounded by the Western (Wailing) Wall. Was destroyed in 70 CE |
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| 10 tribes overrun and then assimilated into Assyrian culture |
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| Between when David was born (1000 BCE) and Assyria's invasion of the northern tribes(722 BCE) |
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| Greek word meaning 5 books, as in the Torah |
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| 4 types of Hebrew literature |
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1.Pentateuch/Torah- Genesis through Deuteronomy
2.Historical Books- Joshua through Esther
3.Poetry & Wisdom--Job, Psalms(Song of Songs)
4.Prophetic Writings |
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| 4 Threads of Authorship in the Torah |
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J = Jahwist
E = Elohist
D = Deuteronomist
P = Priestly |
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| How many commandments in the Torah? |
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| 613, 365 of which are prohibitions |
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| Founder of Christianity. Was a Jewish holy man born 4-6 BCE. Is the Christian Word of God |
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| Matt (70 CE), Mark (65 CE), Luke (70 CE), John (90 CE or later) |
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1. Shahadah (Confession of faith)
2. Salat (Prayer 5x a day)
3. Charity (2.5%)
4. Ramadan and fasting
5. Hadj (Pilgrimage) |
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| The Islamic holy book, means 'The Recitation' |
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| a small group around a living, charismatic leader |
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| a small group that survives the death of its charismatic leader |
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| 4 types of New Testament literature |
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Gospels – 4 accounts of life of Jesus
Acts – emergence of early communities
Epistles – letters to communities, Paul of Tarsus wrote 7.
Revelation – apocalyptic vision |
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| 3 main branches of Christianity |
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Roman Catholic (Universal)
Eastern Orthodox – 1054 CE
Protestant - 1517 CE – Martin Luther |
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| Prophet and founder of Islam. Born 570 CE in Mecca |
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