RELI 1730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Burning Bush, Passover Seder, Promised Land
4 Apr 2017
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2 types: cultural and saviour: cultural, typical patterm. Boons for a community: religious, similar, with some variations. Not only saves their community but saves the entire notion of human kind. Heroes brings benefits in both the short term and the long term future. Has a transcendence power for this world. Additional spiritual and, at times, sacrificial aspects. They sacrified thir lives in order to reach their goal. Ex: buddha who starved to death when meditating. God also re(cid:448)ealed moses" (cid:374)a(cid:373)e: thus, this is how moses became a prophet, then moses grew, and one day he saw an egyptian was beating a hebrew, and he feared. And also later on, god chose moses to lead his people. If the jews wanted to save their first born, they would up a mark on their land and so when the angel comes they would know.
