RELS 201 Lecture 5: RELS 201_Decoumentary Notes-1

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 201
• Professor: Craig Ginn

Document Summary

Hardest of all the religions to answer the question: the way of exile and return. Apart from god, apart from community and need to return to god technique to overcome exile and storytelling and law and are connected: past oversade, table meal. Through wilderness to promiseland to tell a story is to follow the law, the law is to remember the story isn"t so much about doctrine, isn"t about a belief system. It"s about story telling: wrestling with the tradition. Portable/textual carry the book between temple destruction 6 century bce and 1st century. Israel not most populous jewish country us is: going outside the areas that they were intended for go to exile want to return back, some choose to stay in exiled place. Smallest in number of the major eight religions: but have an influence way beyond the numbers. Less jews than people in mumbai 14 million. 3 jews in the supreme court: great representation in the senate.