HUMA 1860 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Three Pilgrimage Festivals, Israel Abrahams, Shavuot

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1860
• Professor: Jason Robinson

Document Summary

Judaism: monotheism: belief in one god, polytheism: belief in many gods. Judaism, christianity & islam are referred to (cid:862)religio(cid:374)s of the (cid:271)ook(cid:863) Jews called it tanakh; christians called it old testament: made of 3 sections, torah (law, ni(cid:448)i(cid:859)i(cid:373) (cid:894)prophets(cid:895, ketuvim (writings) Torah (law: term torah is used to refer to hebrew bible as a whole, torah refers to 5 books of moses: genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers & deuteronomy, these 5 books are also known as the pentateuch. The creation of humanity: there(cid:859)re (cid:1006) differe(cid:374)t a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)ts i(cid:374) he(cid:271)re(cid:449) bi(cid:271)le of (cid:272)reatio(cid:374) of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) ki(cid:374)d as stated i(cid:374) the (cid:271)ook of. First account of creation (cid:862)a(cid:374)d god said, (cid:858)let us (cid:373)ake (cid:373)a(cid:374) i(cid:374) our i(cid:373)age, after our like(cid:374)ess. Second account of creation (cid:862)[t]he lord god for(cid:373)ed (cid:373)a(cid:374) fro(cid:373) the dust of the earth. And the lord god fashioned the rib he had taken from the man into a woman; and he brought her to the man.