RELS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Maimonides, Age Of Enlightenment, Rabbi Akiva

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 131
• Professor: John H.Young

Document Summary

Developments during this time that ensure the survival of judaism. Has existed for at least several centuries, probably since the period of the exile. Becomes prominent both in the homeland and in the diaspora. The synagogue had become an important since the 2nd temple was destroyed. In the tradition of the pharisees in interpreting the bible and the oral tradition and applying both to the contemporary situation. Developments during this time that ensure the survival of judaism (continued) Worship focused on reading of bible (especially torah), prayer, and study. Ethical demands of judaism receive even greater stress and importance as the way one serves god. Written canon of the bible (the tanakh) closed (not a hundred percent complete when the temple is destroyed but is by 150 ce) In summary, judaism no longer dependent upon a land or a geographic centre. Rabbi hillel key teacher in jerusalem c. 30 bce 10 ce, was much more liberal.