RELI 2110 Lecture Notes - Sefer Torah, Masoretic Text, Oral Torah
17 Feb 2014
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2000 bce-587 bce: israelite religion abraham-destruction of first temple diaspora israelite religion outside the land of israel. 1000 bce-500 bce: writing down of hebrew bible. 538 bce-70 ce: judaism in exile and in palestine until destruction of second temple. 70-640 ce: classical rabbinic period (talmud closes in 500 ce) rabbis most active in developing the oral tradition which is later written down and developed in the talmud commentaries. The hebrew bible we have now is approximately 2500 years old. Earliest texts probably old legends and liturgical (sacred words that are ritually spoken during a religious service), date from: 1200-1000 bce (song of deborah, covenant code, etc. ) Political and cultural contexts that can be made. Most texts from exilic period (6th-5th entury bce and later) Dead sea scrolls (usually dated 150 bce to 70ce) include biblical texts fragments. Canon texts that are authoritative to a group of texts. Take time to be established, often people disagree on the canon.
