RELIGST 2AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Patriarchal Age, Pithom, Julius Wellhausen

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2AB3
• Professor: Dan Machiela

Document Summary

Abraham and the patriarchal age: abraham, issac, jacob, also we can call it the matriarchal age: sarah, rebecca. Jacob has twelve sons, sons go to egypt, exodus later and 12 tribes become nations. They go to israel, live in theocracy where judges rise. They then want a king because everyone else has kings. The rst three kings saul david solomon israel united, after. Solomon kingdom splits into two parts israel and judah two separate kings the. The united kingdom of israel under kings david and solomon, around 10th century. The way we can date this, carbon dating, genealogies, inscriptions from other nations about israel, other king names are mentioned in these biblical texts and we can see other archaeological evidence to link. Evens related to the exodus from egypt around 1250 bc exodus 1:11> when. Israelites were slaves to egyptians, egyptians made them built cities ramses and.