RELIGST 2J03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chosen People, Common Era, Foreskin

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2J03
• Professor: Cecilia Hudecki

Document Summary

Notes: for today"s film, think about how the course and the film teach the prescriptive judaism and real life judaism. What binds the jews together is not a creed but a history: a strong sense of a common origin, a shared past and a shared destiny. (de lange, pg. 24) first line of chapter 2 in textbook. Slavery to the promised land (c. 1700-1250 bcse late bronze age) Moses-ten plagues, exodus, torah, oral law (c. 1225/1250bce:late bronze age) These figures are problematic in a sense whereby these people were figures in jewish religion however they are not necessarily endowed with godly characteristics. The story goes, abraham was picked by god as a righteous man. Key terms: hebrew, monotheism, circumcision, the first covenant (where the phrase comes from that the jews are the chosen people) Abraham is married to sarah and they have a son named issac.