RLGA02H3 Midterm: World Religion Midterm Terms -SM
Document Summary
Torah: teaching instruction; reading it is jews" responsibilities; ultimate respiratory of the religious truth; center of jewish life; part of the tanakh; canonical literature, entire hebrew bible, tanakh and could be extended to midrash, mishnah and. Talmud: believed to be written by moses and it included the first 5 books of moses . Babylonian exile when priests couldn"t do traditional temple rituals: post biblical development, created rabbis after second temple was destroyed (70. Ce: believed that rabbinic jews would experience natural world through torah since rabbinic judaism placed torah as the center of jewish life, medieval jews nature: experienced through interpretation torah because it was a blueprint of the world created. Second commonwealth: post exilic community; occurred after the babylonian exile, during the time, not jews returned to persian controlled judah. Aristocrats stayed at babylon and formed nucleus of a community that would have a major role of.
