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Document Summary
Liberal jewish perspective they are just stories, acceptance that stories or allegorical and symbolic vs. Moral of story loss of between god and us. It"s a particular form of intelligence: right vs. Historians say he may not have existed no evidence. Humanity acquiring ability to distinguish between moral and immoral behaviors, ethical & unethical. Teleological - theologically story gets used to justify our stay here on earth: ur is an ancient disappeared town in iraq. Paternal founder: abrahamic lineage (ur in mesopotamia) several people, migrate to land of israel, draught forces migration to egypt, there are not many that accept the exodus story. Conservative school tempers and dilutes the claim that everything is literal. Israelite society: loose tribal federation of hebrews become identified as children of israel, series of tribes with loose affiliatios. No centralized state: semitic, a semit is not an ethnic category but rather a linguistic category.
