REL 2029 Chapter : The Emergence Of Judaism
Document Summary
A place to begin: judaism = religions of judains people of judah (hebrews, 586 b. c. e. Jerusalem falls; judah falls to babylonians: 722 b. c. e. Israel falls to assyrians: hebrews did not practice unified religion, nor shared unified ethnicity, language, race. Had extended family helped him keep track, including son (baal) Iii: baal = god of sky, weather (early hebrew writing) Relevance emergence of hebrew people from this history; setting created for. Not sacrifice: ritual cleanliness (mesopotamian) spiritual purity = participation: reflection of. Mesopotamian legal codes: early hebrews: earth = flat disc that sits on ocean; sky = dome of heaven, keeps other water off. Underworld, land of dead, exists under earth, but not really relevant: hebrew god: anthropomorphic, not monotheistic henotheism, may be many gods, only choose to serve the one. Name of god not mentioned until narrative of moses: yhwh. Jehova: name = i am who i am. imperfect.
