RELI 1001 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Three Pilgrimage Festivals, Torah Reading, New Jewish Publication Society Of America Tanakh

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Religion
• Course: RELI 1001
• Professor: Sarah Cook

Document Summary

Torah-first five books (books of moses) ; genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, Kehtuvim-writing (random texts that did not fit in the others) The lord said to abram, go forth from your native land and from your father"s house to the land that i will show you (canaan, now israel). I will make of you a great nation . Modern jewish people do not say yahweh because it is the sacred name, instead they say yhwh or other names. The stories within the texts of the tanakh were originally passed down orally but they were eventually written down and the redacted into books that form a historical narrative. Julius wellhausen"s documentary hypothesis posits four different textual sources that were redacted together. J-yahwistic source (yahweh: creation according to j. Man was made first, followed by the woman. The earth started it and then god stepped in. Narrative: e-el, d-many names for god, p-priestly source (numbers, how to build things, not mixing garments)