RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sadducees, Essenes, Babylonian Captivity
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Abraham a promised land and look after his descendants. God and abraham enter into this covenant the pact in which god was going to give. God promised the land of canaan to abraham (what is israel today not the same interpreted as god"s dissatisfaction by the way the community has conducted itself. boundaries). So they established themselves there, and they identified that land as the one given by god. The disposition of that land has always been interpreted as god displeasure with the. Jewish people there have been times where they had to leave that area because of wars (egypt, babylonian era, the romans, etc. ). Retributive theology: history is interpreted as either being in good times as god blessings, and in bad times as god punishing. The hebrew bible is composed of three major sections: 1-the first section is the torah (means knowledge) is used to refer to those 5 books.
