RELS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Humanistic Judaism, Scientific Method, Moses Mendelssohn
25 Apr 2016
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Background: no different branches in judaism until the 19th century. Parties existed from c. 200 bce c. 100 ce but, with the possible exception of the. Essenes, not distinct groups such as those that now exist. The judaism that survived the roman destruction of judaea/palestine often called rabbinic. Two major and different ethnic lines in contemporary judaism. Descendants of jews who migrated to italy from eastern mediterranean area in 1 st and. Spread through central and eastern europe and later to north and. Went to spain from eastern mediterranean in 8th and 9th centuries and from there to. North africa, western and northwestern europe, and later to north and south america. Suffered periodic persecution, especially in western europe until c. 1800; less persecution in eastern europe until mid-17th century, after which date it becomes worse there. Jews tended to live separately in a certain quarter of a city, in pre-dominantly jewish villages, in a ghetto.
