M E STD M50B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Oriental Orthodoxy, Theism, Abraham Geiger

• School: UCLA
• Department: Middle Eastern Studies
• Course: M E STD M50B
• Professor: Professor Westbrook

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M50b origins of judaism, christianity, and islam: judaism wrap up/beginnings of. The rabbinic period: the traditions of the pharisees outlived most of the other jewish sects, interpretations of the rabbinic movement have defined jewish culture, because of the centrality of the torah, literacy rates tended to be higher among. Jews from non-jews: by the end of the second temple period, most jews lived outside of judea, babylonian talmud emerges. Judaism would be a religion of the diaspora: two main rabbinic centers: palestine & babylonia. Gender relations-androcentric perspectives of the rabbis: women were typically expected to fulfill only those commandments that were negative ( thou shall not , rabbinic law respected women but they were clearly viewed as subservient. Jesus"s life from the first century ce, namely from josephus, a historian: debates continue today about the nature of the jesus of history and the.