RELI 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Endogamy
23 Jan 2018
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Zion refers to jerusalem, the home of the jews. Demography is everything, whoever has more people is more powerful. Takes a wife, sarai, and have no children. Instead he has hagar, sarai"s maid, have a child with abraham called ishmael. Sarai banishes them and sends them to mecca due to jealousy. When sarah is 90 and abraham is 100, they have a child, isaac. Isaac becomes father of the jews and ishmael of the islamic. Jacob with help of mother, disguises as esau and gets the blessings of isaac that esau was supposed to get. Jacob flees and goes to the land of his mothers. Have 13 children, rachel who cant get pregnant has two children joseph and benjamin.
