RE204 Lecture Notes - Temple Mount, Avodah, Jebusite
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Tomorrow is erev sukkot (sukkot"s eve: sukkot, the festival of booths, starts on 15 tishrei, and was one of the major pilgrimage festivals. 586 bce - then it became judaism (after the destruction of the first temple: before that it was considered isrealite history. People worshipped both god and other gods influences: 586 bce - babylonians destroyed/ seiged, kept records of the hebrews, 1200 - earliest reach of judaism. Creation according to judaism: genesis 1-3, creationism. Created adam, eve from a rib, lived in garden of eden. Snake convinced eve to eat the fruit by telling her that it was the tree of knowledge of good and evil planted in the middle difference between humankind and god. God created - ability to create, speakhuman attributes not physical attributes, as god has no form. Women will feel pain from birth, snake can"t walk and talk, kicked out of garden. No longer in harmony with the animals.