HUM 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mithraism, Mishnah, Vulgate
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Chapter 8: the flowering of christianity- faith and the power of belief in the early first. An increased interest in messianism (the end of times and the arrival of the. Sect: small organized group that separates from a larger religious movement with beliefs of better access and knowledge of god. Essenes: most conservative (almost wanted to remove women entirely from their sect) Purity laws: who can contact with who; created conflict. Destruction of the second temple in 70 ce- jewish diaspora. Center of jewish culture, with the destruction, it created a dispersement of judaism. A group of jewish scholars who created an oral tradition in which they would talk about specifically the meaning of the convenient and proper jewish conduct. Major historical difference between christian jews and non-christian. Only section century where christianity is understood as a distinct religion rather than a sect of judaism. Distinct interpretive and artistic practice of early christianity:
