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Judaism
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
10/19/2010

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what is the significant point of the story of Cain and Abel?
Definition
  • break in relations between man and God
  • breakdown in human relationships
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3 major themes of Judaism
Definition
  1. covenant - circumcision
  2. exile
  3. laws
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Mesopotamian law
Definition
- requires a barren wife to provide a substitute her husband could impregnate
Term
Test of covenant
Definition

-Abraham is told to sacrifice Isaac

(Abraham's marries Sarah, provides Hagar)

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biblical revelation
Definition
  • all starts with Abraham, his story is the reversal of Adam's failure
Term
Joseph
Definition
  • Sarah's 11th son
  • long-sleeved tunic
  • becomes pharaoh's government minister
Term
Talmud
Definition

Rabbinic commentary based on biblical principal and law

(200-600 BCE)

Term

Talmud 2 books

 

Definition
  1. mishna - 613 commandments

6 categories: seeds, feasts, women, damages, holiness, ritual

 

2. gemarah - law interpretation

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3 Kings
Definition
  1. Saul - military hero, king of Hebrews
  2. David - military hero, 2nd king of Hebrews
  • defeats Philistines
  • recaptures the city of Jerusalem
  • retakes the Ark of the Covenant
  • unites Israel and Judah kingdoms

3. Solomon - builds 1st temple in Jerusalem, peaceful reign (961-928 BCE), Israel and Jerusalem separate

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4 prophets
Definition
  • Israel
  1. Amos - too much ritual
  2. Hisea - unfaithful to God
  • Judah
  1. Isaish - ritual wont save you
  2. Jeremiah - priest
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4 periods on Judaic history
Definition
  1. Age of Diversity
  2. The Formative Age
  3. Classical Age
  4. Modern Age
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Diaspora
Definition
- scattering of the Jews outside of Israel
Term
Septvagint
Definition
70 translations of Tanakh into Greek/Jews in Egypt
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Maccabean Revolt
Definition
  • 170 BCE
  • Sryrians control Israel
  • Zealous Hellenizers
  • 167 BCE - claims Temple for Zeus, instead of God
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3 Jewish groups under Roman control
Definition
  1. Essences - mystics, live outside of Jerusalem
  2. Pharisees - "interpreters" of scriptures, the working class of the Jews
  3. Sadducees - "righteous ones"
Term
2 cultural/geographic Judaic Traditions
Definition
  1. Sephardin
  2. Ashkenazin
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Kabbalah
Definition
  • Jewish mysticism
  • numerology, magiv, divination
  • searched for clues to the Coming Messiah (in order to end suffering)
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Shabbatai Zevi
Definition
  • ghettos, mysticism
  • banished from Turkey
  • returns to Turkey prison
  • converts of Islamic religion
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Moses Mendelssohn
Definition
  • advises Hebrews in order for them to live in large society
  • leave ghettos, live among gentiles
  • learn vernacular languages
  • accepted into Berlin's Intellectual Elite
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