HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Israelites, Minoan Civilization, Xenophanes
6 Dec 2016
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Early hebrew and greek thought textbook and lecture. Religions/supernatural thinking (mythopoeic) egypt, mesopotamia, hebrew. Deeds of gods who made world rituals influence living things, ritual action tries to appease spirits, affect fate: water is fundamental element, exists before anything else created societies concerned, survival, everything surrounded. Originated in mesopotamia, migrate to canaan (palestine) mesopotamian religious traditions. Early history known through religious texts tanakh (old testament) First five books of the torah genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, deuteronomy. God created heavens and earth, maters bring creatures, god saw it was good. Nothing above god, we can manipulate nature, animism does not exist, there is only one god. No one has the will or soul other than god, one god. Things broken in nature because of humanity"s poor choices. Documentary theory multiple different accounts of creation, combined jewish written tradition. Mesopotamia polytheistic influence: only text start with genesis, revised, noah"s arc for monotheistic god.
