RELG 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chuppah, Erusin, Janice Stein
23 Jun 2018
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-Jewish sexual ethics
-What is Judaism?
-Judaism is (Neuser):
-A worldview
-A way of life
-A particular social group
-Two foundations, one religious system
-Israelite religion (under Moses)
-Judaism (after Babylonian exile)
-TaNaKh and talmud - written and oral Torah
-Problems with Judaism
-Not in Jewish Bible or religious vocabulary
-“ism” = ideological focus
-“Juda” - one of the twelve tries of Israel
-“Judean”
-“Israel”
-Christianity identifies with Israel, differentiates from Jews
-Israel
-Name given to Jacob
-Entire nation defended from Jacob
-Northern kingdom during divided monarchy
-Jews almost always refer to themselves as Israel in Hebrew texts
-Modern Jewish state founded in 1948
-Israel’s covenant
-Torah - constitution of the covenant
-People - historical and ontological identity is found in the covenant with God
-Land - right to their home-land rounded in covenant
-Abraham was responsive towards God. God promised Abraham to have many descendants
and the world will be blessed through him.
-Sex and the hebrew bible: The creation of Adam and eve in the bible in the creation and
likeliness of God. Element of procreation: to be fruitful and multiply. Dimorphic message:
differentiation between man and women.
-Genesis 2: the idea of becoming one flesh - grounding point of sex as consummation to
marriage.
*-Is the Bible a story of monogamy?
-Noah’s son, Lot’s daughters, Abraham’s wife, Judah and Tamar, Rahab, Samson and Delilah,
David and Bathsheba, Amnon’s rape of Tamar, Solomon’s owes and concubines, Ruth
(uncovered feet), Esther (beauty queen), polygamy, prostitution
-Hebrew scriptures are a story of God’s faithfulness to the covenant despite Israel’s failures
-Covenantal foundation of Judaism
Contract: a relationship of trust linking two parties
-Not perpetual (can be broken)
-Negotiated by the parties
-Can be terminated by mutual consent
-Can be terminated by subsequent events
-Parties function as equals in the establishment of the contract
-Covenant: made by God with humans, or made by humans before God as their guarantee
-Perpetual relationships
-Terms stipulated by drive authority
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Document Summary
Tanakh and talmud - written and oral torah. Juda - one of the twelve tries of israel. Jews almost always refer to themselves as israel in hebrew texts. People - historical and ontological identity is found in the covenant with god. Land - right to their home-land rounded in covenant. God promised abraham to have many descendants and the world will be blessed through him. Sex and the hebrew bible: the creation of adam and eve in the bible in the creation and likeliness of god. Element of procreation: to be fruitful and multiply. Genesis 2: the idea of becoming one esh - grounding point of sex as consummation to marriage. Noah"s son, lot"s daughters, abraham"s wife, judah and tamar, rahab, samson and delilah, David and bathsheba, amnon"s rape of tamar, solomon"s owes and concubines, ruth (uncovered feet), esther (beauty queen), polygamy, prostitution. Hebrew scriptures are a story of god"s faithfulness to the covenant despite israel"s failures.
