RLG202Y1 Lecture Notes - Mount Gerizim, Sadducees, Salome Alexandra
Document Summary
Job shatters pre-existing categories acts as a bridge to the next stage. 1) false prophecy - leads to 4 things 1) focus on the book, 2) 2) evil 1) immortality of soul, 2) resurrection of the body, and 3) Second phase: overview of the era of hellenistic/rabbinic judaism (second temple judaism) 5) alexander the great and hellenism (impact on judaism) 6) change in horizon (dealings with the other [samaritans, Judaism reinvents itself in several periods of its history: 4) after the destruction of the 2nd temple. 5) middle of the middle ages (codified law) The period when classical judaism emerges new form. In the wake of the maccabean revolution is the creation of sects. Herod the great builders raises the 2nd temple to its greatest glory. 2 jewish revolts against rome 66 64, and bar kochba revolt: key dates. 587 bce exile of judeans to babylon, destruction of the first. 538 return from exile under the persian king cyrus.
