RELG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Riddler, Stamen

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 210
• Professor: Frederick Tappenden

Document Summary

Roman palestine (ca 4 bce - 39 ce) Key concepts: foreign occupation and the history of roman palestine, the jewish war of 66-70 ce (important, the religious landscape of pre- and post war roman palestine. People were united under one king (anointed by one king - in fact, they the kingdom was ruled by god through kings) Babylonians annexed the kingdom in 587 bce, upper class was forced in exile. Then historical records indicate that a greek ruler took peony from the jewish temple - the tradition exists that rulers could technically use money from the treasury, but he had to be jewish. Such incident incited so much public frustration that a riot took place. Also this greek emperor installed anther god in the temple and made. Torah invalid - he forbade circumcision and ordered his subject to eat pork etc to test their loyalty toe the emperor.