RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Respect Diversity, Idolatry, Jewish Renewal
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When you have completed this lesson you should be able to: Explain how jewish notions of love are related to relationship and covenant. List the key points of two different interpretation methods of song of songs: functionalism and structuralism. Explain where buber believes love is found and why. Describe learner"s god of transformation and how this relates to love. List lerner"s ten commitments and explain their significance in relationship to the ten. Relationship and covenant between one god and his people based on love forms the core of the. Jews conceived of a single deity (monotheistic) with whom they formed a mutual relationship. In judaic tradition, yhwh is used to connote god no vowels, rendering the group of consonants unpronounceable. Using yhwh prevents definition and doesn"t restrict or offer a static concept, rather it"s unpronounceable, indefinable, moving beyond the confines of human language. Song of songs: concepts of sexuality and the erotic.
