CJS201H1 Lecture Notes - Book Of Deuteronomy
14 Apr 2014
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What did it mean for jews to go through babylonian exile: memory of ancient israel, trial of babylonian exile as we see birth of judaism as a culture than spans across geographic territories, moves from religion of temple and sacrifice to modern religious culture, sense of belonging to a particular place, tenach, three part series of books, torah, prophets and writings, peneteuch, first part of the tenach, earliest piece of hebrew bible, song of miriam. Significance of passover: ritual meal that commemorates the series of events, moses is upset about slavery in egypt, commissioned by god to confront the pharaoh, series of plagues, 10th plague is most severe (death of the first born, chief pilgrimage feast to celebrate the liberation from slavery, eventually becomes domesticated with reading and commemoration, passover leads to the covenant, described in exodus, covenant = agreement.
