HUM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hellenistic Religion, Old Christian, Roman Empire
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Judaism: emerged as a series of practices, grounded in and emerging canon of sacred texts that became the old testament . Is tension fundamental to desire or a sense of obligation, duty to one"s destiny. Christianity made faith a matter of love. Made object of devotion not a woman but a spiritual woman. The human body is a metaphor central to the roman world. Most of the torah is the set of rules that generate social behaviour. You should not boil a kid (baby goat) in its mother"s milk . The talmud: the way you react you to other people model relationship between people and people. Hellenism: and increasing use of prose; hellenistic religion, means the adaption of. Greek modes of culture by the romans in the late republic and early imperial periods. Roman culture transmitted greek philosophy, mythology, and cultic practice and this transmission affected judaism and early christianity.
