RELI 1710 Lecture Notes - Docetism, Homoousion, Sadducees
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Jews living under domination of others" until 1967. Number of jews begins to grow outside of homelands in europe. Arabic so they could converse with other muslim philosophers. Moses maimonides (12th c. : rabbi moses ben maimon = rmbm = rambam, guide for the perplexed (his way of initiating the question; popular work for the people) Judaism loves to make nicknames out of acronyms (and also books) Question what is the relationship between faith and reason: science. Judaism embraces human intellect, whereas christianity and islam have a habit of rejecting. Christianity starts challenging islam for power, and jews are caught in the middle. Christianity is making up stories and theories against jews. The accusations would be comical if it hadn"t been so tragic. Christian mobs attacking jews and prompting the exodus. Forced to convert or leave spain (1492) then. Poland one of the only countries that welcomes jews. They need a very solid middle class for the nation to prosper.