RELG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Second Temple Judaism
2 Jan 2019
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The word christian originated as an exo name. Second temple judaism was centered on the temple. The only temple that god of israel could be worshipped. Roman empire was a military structure: was a net-work of semi-independent city states. Jerusalem was not a semi-independent city state: the temple was the only business in the city. Effectively around jerusalem was semi-independent temple state, and romans allows high priests to run as long as they paid their taxes. By standards of today roman empire was not that efficient. In the around around jeruslam, high priest would run things and. Most population of jews in the world didn"t live in the jewish homeland: but they would send money to jerusalem. Important development is in the work of david friederich strauss. Romantic rebellion 1830s: political romanticism, rebellion against rationalism. Nature of the source and things they say about jesus, the gospels were written in order to convience people.
