REL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rabbinic Judaism, Ketuvim, Tanakh

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: REL 102
• Professor: Steven Ericson

Document Summary

Needs to be done before class on tuesday. Has to be finish in that 15 mins. Ten sayings or declarations (christians believe in the 10 but there are actually 300 and some) Judah defeated in 586 bce and temple destroyed. Some returned in 538 and rebuilt the temple. ^ (multiple creation stories through genesis 1&2 offer up other authors) Thought to be the compilation of the torah time period. Time that the kosher laws came into play (way for them to obtain a unique identity and not get lost as just a. Have to look at the promise land from a point of exile that they were going through, them not knowing what it was like to be in. Narratives of the past give the claim today of who deserves what. Rebuilt the temple just to be destroyed again now by the romans b/c of the revolt of the jews. Prothero- difference between rabbinic judaism and israelite region.