RS110 Lecture Notes - Seven Laws Of Noah, 613 Commandments, Five Megillot

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS110
• Professor: Peter Frick

Document Summary

For any religion, information about it is retrieved from the scriptures. Thus the religions are known as: judaism the way of the torah, christianity the way of the cross, islam the way of submission. For judaism, the scripture was the hebrew bible/old testament/tanakh: tanakh was made of 3 words: torah (law), neviim (prohpets), ketuvim (writings, there are 24 books. The following are megilloth scrolls, and are read out during celebrations etc. The following books are the minor prophets are counted as one book. Initially believed that moses wrote the first 5 books but not believed that he may have written it but not in its entirety. What is the importance of whether or not he may or not have written it: nature of text; anthropomorphic language we can never understand god because he is on his own level, correct interpretation is important. Creation (genesis 1-2) creation of man and woman is the most important.