HISTORY 16A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Religion In The Middle East, Religious Art, Ganachakra
29 Aug 2016
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12 religious ideas that might be a hundred thousand years older than judaism ideas that. Judaism, christianity, islam, and virtually all world religions adopted. Egypt, assyria, mesopotamia, samaria (created the first writing) cadia, babylon, greece, 12 more religious ideas that judaism adopted from nearby ancient middle eastern religions that preceded judaism by a thousand years or more. Strict prohibitions for incest and human sacrifice- other cultures before engaged in incest and human sacrifice. 2 points to take away from this lecture: syncretism + novelty = new religion. Syncretism means borrowing: borrowing different ideas- all religions are used with this, not aware because it happened so long ago. Judaism becomes new religion from these other cultures and practices. Judaism is not big but it is important- gives basis for other 2. Prehistory- know through archeology to see mental state of people who created the things: people started burying their dead about 150,000 years ago, buried them with their belongings and materials.
