RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Religious Law, Henotheism, Torah
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Revelations given to certain prophets over time. Why not just tell the story once: failure is a connection, mercy from god, god is always willing to give a second chance in the hebrew. Christians super revelation is when jesus comes to the world. Jesus comes to earth is the biggest moment. In islam, muhammad gets a revelation once, (the quran) In judaism well see a turn to messianic ideas. Being jewish is a category used to describe someone"s religiosity or ethnicity. Many jews can be culturally jewish but not religious. Majority of jews are secular, they are not practicing. Secular jews don"t have any problems with the orthodox jews in. Transition in hebrew bible when abraham strikes up a contract with god. Henotheism exclusive belief in one god but keeping in mind other gods may exist. Idolatry a person that is worship something that is empty or hollow. It is the 5 books (component of the hebrew bible)
