REL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Religious Use Of Incense, Jokshan, Mishnah
6 Feb 2020
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Chaotic and dark ocean: what is accomplished when something is named? (why does god name things as he creates them?) People have become prideful and there"s an element of pagan worship in the building of the tower. Qualities and attributes: made for dominion over the created world; caretaker. Torah in hebrew bible - law, custom, instruction. The story of the pentateuch - how one family became god"s people, who would become the nation of israel. Creation of the world and man: chaos and order, in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth . Exo nihilo (creation from nothing: consistent w ancient israelite thought, psalm 33:6, 9, chaos is the precursor to creation, create hebrew (bara) Its use in the hebrew means to create something entirely new. In ane (ancient near eastern world) context, the heavens and the earth should be interpreted as everything that exists: darkness was over the face of the deep .
