RLGA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Worship God, Ketuvim, Polysemy
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According to tradition the first person to build the first temple was solomon. Judaism as a historian would not say it has a single founder. Being jewish can be a religious category but it can also be an ethnic category as well. Today the majority of jews that would identify themselves as jewish would categorize themselves as secular (not practicing) The state of israel in a modern view is primarily a secular process. While the majority of the jews are secular, the political parties that are in power have been orthodox religious, traditional. Can"t come up with the idea of having one god without the idea that there were already many other gods. Abraham wants an exclusive contract with abraham but there is no exclusive reference in that story in the hebrew bible that he wants his exclusive worship because none of the other god"s exist. I"m a jealous god i will be everything you require.
