HIST 100 Lecture 13: Judaism
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In judaism, worship of nature is forbidden: so is the worship of images, very text based hebrew bible (old testament, torah collection of books; first 5 books of hebrew bible, provides the ancient history and the laws of judaism, apocalyptic god will one day have a last judgment, and will then form a perfect moral order on earth, appearance of messiah a profit, jewish history is filled with false profits, and they"re still waiting, doesn"t really concern itself with the afterlife. The covenant: around 4000 years ago, around 2000bce, at ancient mesopotamia, there was a decline; people began to get out and leave, the hebrew people were led by this figure abraham, no evidence that abraham existed; only evidence is in the hebrew bible, hebrews were returning to a nomadic way of life, god, named el shaddai, god of the rock or mountain, abraham told his people that they will not worship any other gods, just el .
