REL 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Book Of Deuteronomy, Book Of Leviticus, Abzu
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Background in the development of judaic thought: preceding judaism, we have the near eastern religions which comprise the sumarian, assyrian, babylonian, and egyptian religions. They seem to have influenced the development of judaic through historically: the near eastern religions: polytheistic,but try to conceive of one highest god. (i. e marduk in the babylonian religion, apsu( sweet waters, ti"amat (salty warter, mumy (mist, they try to conceive of heaven and hell and idea of reward and punishment, we find a parallel myth of flood to the hebrew bible story of noah. Judaism is often associated with the land of israel, but judaism is better understood when one studies the hebrew bible. Canaan divided among eleven of the tribes: levy, the 12th tribe is given the charge of worship and religious functions among tribes, the first king is saul (bce, thereaferter comes david (1013)
