RLGA02H3 Lecture Notes - Complete Review, Henotheism, Monogamy
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Topic: the ancient context; judaism: the hebrew bible and sacred history. Agenda complete review of syllabus the ten waves > think, pair, share (5mins) Ancient religions > the essentials judaism: sacred history, revelation, and narrative. *waves=influx of information, waves hitting shore take sand and replace it with sand from somewhere else, movement of objects. Fluidity>identity, movement in ideas, peak and troughs represent popularity, represents change, tide of danger, represents ideas. Death and afterlife (abraham= get our rewards here, christianity and fact, theory and interpretation the english word religion community islam, actions and where they take us) Being jewish (by culture or by tradition) >hebrew bible: god is demanding attention of key figures, god is asking a exclusive relationship (henotheism= belief in one god without denying the existence of others, idolatry=polytheism (already believed that its an idol) >known to jews as 5 books of moses : genisis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, deauteronomy. >collection of stories and examples to the right way.
