RLGA02H3 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
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Lecture 4- jewish traditions: overview and focus on ancient context: abrahamic traditions - ici connect with abraham. Monotheistic means belief in one god and all belief in other gods are flase. Sometimes christianity, islamic and judaism is lumped together as the. Abrahamic religious because judaism from a historical perspective is a foundation for christianity and islamic traditions. Not just historically but within the traditions, abraham will play a role in ex- islamic, considered as the first true monotheist to get it right in practice. From a scholarly perspective, to characterize these traditions in categories it runs the risk of ghettoizing the traditions. By using the word ghetto is means if you inforce to be in the categorizes it"s not much different than saying those religious are eastern and these are western. Monotheistic as we move through history, later jewish religion is monotheistic. And islam contains the true sense of monotheism.
