HIST 1031W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Parable Of The Prodigal Son, Pharisees, Roman Law
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Next wednesday: meetings with reader-graders in the main room. Regarding the midterm exam: if you didn"t do well, too bad. The final will be almost the exact same format. The last session of the course is questions and conclusions on december 10. There will be an extra credit assignment that prof. matar will grade himself. There were no sources from while jesus was alive. Why did he irritate his own religious community? (think in terms of law: 5 groups (sects) of jews, law: moving from the 10 mosaic to the 639 israelite laws. Pharisees monitoring him: ethnic exclusivity: deut 7:1-5, samaritan episode, healing others outside his community, etc, basically, jesus had no respect for the law as others followed it. He blatantly broke the laws in his displays of miracles. He was often mistook for john the baptist: preaching to and engaging the disenfranchised, the poor; against the rich 12:22; 18:22 dives and lazarus; poor widow:
