RELG 1641 Lecture Notes - Religions Of The Ancient Near East, Israelites, Inanna

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Historical timeline of judaism, christianity, islam and sexuality. 100 bce-200 ce: development of contemporary judaism (scriptures, laws, compiling into monolithic tradition) Tigris and euphraedes prone to flooding, ideal for crops. Before biblical times, people were mostly nomadic (i. e. israelites) Mesopotamians, sumerians, canaanites, hittites, egyptians, babylonians, persians settling of proto-jew in israel: competing cultures for agricultural space, shared ideologies. Very interested in fertility- most logical way of thinking about how human activity sacrificial communication with gods interacts with nature. Biggest preoccupation is with the land- move the god to keep the land fertile. Humans have sex; gods have sex- causes fertility of the earth success/failures of humans interact with the divine. No need for fertility rites (because of monotheism)

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