Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Olorun, Marital Rape, Atlantic Slave Trade

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Andrea Allen

Document Summary

Israelites produced the hebrew bible, what christians call the old. Formed textual basis for judaism, which developed between 2nd. Ancient jews disagreed among themselves on many issues. Some major differences between israelite religion and judaism, but israelite views of body generally maintained in judaism century bce 2nd-5th centuries ce. Ancient christians disagreed among themselves on many issues, including views of the body. Judaism: body is a unity, no spirit/body divide: after you die, you live on as a body (resurrected) Western culture so influenced by greek mythology, cannot understand this concept (think of body and spirit divided: dieties worshipped through animal sacrifice. Conception that diety values physical things (worship, bodies- even if the bodies are killed to worship him) Religious worship fundamentally physical in ancient israel and. Early christians could not agree for two centuries on whether. Some christians influenced by greek philosophy and held a most of ancient world, centered on animal sacrifice and rituals of the body.