PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Sadducees, Pharisees, Septuagint

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO239
• Professor: Angela Brkich

Document Summary

Some of the purposes this story has always shown: sets people apart from canaanites even though they are not all that different. these myths may have been there to justify their overruling the people of canaan. rome would do this too, saying they were the most pious and so god allowed them to take over all this land because of their piety. it is not that these myths are being lied, they are just self justifications of which they may not have been very much conscious of creating. This time marked a very different change in the social structure. prophets used to be very important but when they became obsolete with the temple, new people rose to prominence: the scribes and sages. they could read and write. it was considered hugely significant. the word was revered (gods used words to create the universe!