RLG280Y1 Chapter Notes -Kingdom Of Judah, Hellenistic Judaism, Israelites
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Both a religion and an ethnic identity; there are those who consider themselves jewish but do not practice the religion. Gave rise to christianity and islam, like judaism, trace their spiritual lineage to abraham. Monotheism the belief in one god originated from judaism. The bible is written in entirely in ancient hebrew, and transcribed on a scroll by hand and treated with the utmost respect. Candidates must learn the ancient script in which the text is written and the traditional melodies to which the words are chanted in order to read from it. Pentateuch (the hebrew bible containing the five books of moses the teenage boy reads from this section on his bar mitzvah this is also the first section of the bible); tanakh (acronym: t n k) (the actual. Hebrew bible and this is where the two selections that the boy will read from at his bar mitzvah)