RLST 127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Aristocracy, Antisemitism

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RLST 127
• Professor: Michael Alexander

Document Summary

Think about it: genocide specific against jews. Ancient world: lived in judah and hebrew, taken to babylonia. Middle: 70 ad, they no longer have land, taken over by rome, ottoman empire etc. Jews are scattered around: morocco, africa, india, persia etc. How did jews get the protection without their land: agrarian production people who are living on that land that are producing things, protection of the land helps. Surf class: working the land, percentage of their money to taken to give to the aristocracy. Ethnicity and nationalism: group of people that share a common culture and many times religion the group self identifies as being part of the group. Natural law: as indigenous to it as the animals and land came from it. Indigenous right to that land: you grew up there. Religion: aristocracy uses it as a means of control, legitimacy to hold power, enforcing of violence, claim to have a connection with religious authority, ex.