REL-1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Protestantism, Secular Humanism, Individualism
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Two arguments, one suggesion: modern torah study. And also to fundamentalist theories of world history: modern context of humanisic studies of religion. Colonialism: suggesion: carry this modern baggage smartly in your postmodern porfolios. How torah is used to study religion: basis of pious study. Antecedent of chrisianity and islam: model for the scieniic, secular, humanisic study of religion, postmodern theory troubles the boundary. Modern torah study: gateway to the study of religion: scieniic study of the hebrew bible. Documentary hypothesis: jedp theory (julius welhausen, jawist describes god as yahweh, elohist primarily describes god as el or elohim, deuteronomy, priestly encompasses wriings scatered from gen 1. Criicism: jepd too simple and top-down: fragmentary origins and supplementaions. Another problem: scriptural base for modern study of religion: idealizaion, recepion. Before scholars saw these problems : they inhabited theories of religion based on scripture. Judaism as world religion: wissenschat des judentums: torah as basis of secular study of jewish people.
