RELS 3333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Burial, Columbarium, Polytheism
21 Mar 2018
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Rels 3333 lecture 9 notes death & afterlife in christianity (part 1) Second temple (built 516 bce destroyed 70 ce) Israel under domination of rome splintering of judaism into many forms: rebellion against rome led to second destruction. Israelites after the destruction of the 2nd temple: diaspora (dispersion of jews beyond israel, pharisees, nazarenes sadducees, zealots, essenes, hellenistic jews. Judgment of good (righteousness) and bad (sin: heaven associated with light; angels, there is a stairway or bridge to heaven, mention of fire (book of malachi last book of the bible) Literally (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:862)a(cid:374)oi(cid:374)ted o(cid:374)e(cid:863) in hebrew: christ means messiah in greek, would be a future king and restore sovereignty, peace on earth, would be human. Jews would return to the promised land: would rebuild the temple, pour olive oil to anoint king. Jesus goes to the desert for 40 days: he fought off human temptations, this combated the notion against god in a human body.
