RELI 1710 Study Guide - Tishrei, Mishnah, Shema Yisrael
Document Summary
It starts from the call of abraham and took 2400 years. It was interpolated to midrash: a body of writings that explains stories in the hebrew bible that are now well explained. Haggadah/ aggadah: narratives not laws, like moses tongue. Torah is also known as pentateuch and they are 5 books of moses. Bereshit, which means in the beginning: gen 1:1: In the beginning god created the heavens and the earth: gen 2:4: generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. It means to walk in the right path. Tanakh: comes from the torah, nevi"im and ketuvim. This is also known as the old testament. Torah scroll: a place for putting the torah. It"s a myth that explains where we came from and why we think of the world this way. Marduk: fertility god with 4 ears and 4 eyes. Job: a man where god punishes him to test his patience.
