RELI 1710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Elohist, Mesoamerican Creation Myths, Utnapishtim

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Religion
• Course: RELI 1710
• Professor: Zeba Crook

Document Summary

Judaism - scriptures, beliefs, and theology: scripture. Includes the nevi"im (prophets) and ketuvim (writings) Further chapter involves another creation story that is different. God is called either elohim or yahweh (adonay) > hebrew bible has possibly 4 sources: elohist, jawhist, priestly, deuteronomist. Genesis opens with biblical myth, the biblical legend, then biblical history. > eg. entry into canaan tribes, monarchy, etc. (history) > eg. adam and eve; garden of eden. = israelites took inspiration from these groups to create their stories. = people built a tower, god scattered people to create language. = everything taken by god to test faith. = job never went against the torah or god. > joshua, judges, samuel (one book), kings (one book) > these prophets speak god"s judgement of israel"s behaviour. > some explain why things happen (why do bad things happen?) = halakhah midrash - legalities of following god (laws) = haggadah / aggadah midrash - the morals of following god (non-legal)