MMW 11 Lecture 6: Outline Lecture Six—The Ancient Israelites and Ethical Monotheism

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

Outline lecture six the ancient israelites and ethical monotheism. Key focus: the hebrew bible (old testament) as a record of the collective memory and aspirations (kairological) of the ancient israelites (people were more focused on the journey, time was seen as a journey, room for variability) Disappeared with the empire bc the religions were carried on by the state (not the individual: what might explain the resilient appeal of ethical monotheism , thomas cahill"s the gift of the jews (1) the wheel (cyclical) vs. Arc) (b) e" god is transidental figure, perfect (evolved from mesopot. god el) Iii) meaning of hebrew (displaced people: distinction of hebrews (displaced people), israelites (specific branch of hebrews that settled in canaan), and jews (israelites that returned to jerusalem after 6th cent. Iv) abraham"s (the exhaulted ancestor) historical background (1) references to migratory pattern of abraham"s clan (a) ppl were displaced, couldn"t find a place to perm.