RELS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shema Yisrael, Book Of Deuteronomy
28 Oct 2016
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Judaism historical overview: ancient hebrew religion, israelite religion, judaism. Ancient hebrew religion: adam and eve: myth of creation, the fall, woman as seductress, noah: the flood, tower of babel. Eve the fall noah(concept of sin)_tower of babel abraham"_________ *different sins : abraham: covenant, sarah(isaac), hagar (ishmael, jacob (israel) God did not like this, abraham did it different way * a lot of excavation in middle east, archaeologists. Hammurabi"s law code: hammurabi (fl. c. 1790-1750, king of ancient babylon, the law code of hammurabi contains 1000 lines of the text and over 250 laws. Israelite religion: moses: exodus, pentateuch, law (10 commandments, joshua: conquest of the land. *god is a self-defining being, i am who i am". *names of god: yhwh (yahweh), jhvh, jehovah (from. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image. You shall not misuse the name of the lord your god. Remember the sabbath day by keeping it holy.
