RELG 204 Study Guide - Final Guide: 613 Commandments, Mishnah, Midrash

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 204
• Professor: Ian H Henderson, Hadi Fakhoury, Steven Lapidus

Document Summary

Comparison section study guide 1/2 on exam: for each of judaism, christianity and islam compare and contrast the means of becoming an adherent or member. As such, abraham marked the beginning of a covenantal promise and relationship between god and the. Jews, and abraham"s obedience to god is emphasized and chosen as model of obedience. For example, as a testament to god"s faith abraham was ordered to offer. Isaac, his son, as a sacrifice to god, an order, which he willingly accepted, but luckily. God intervened by replacing isaac with a ram to be sacrificed instead at the last moment. Moses also fulfilled a great prophetic role in the jewish tradition, because his prophetic revelations formed the basis for the torah and thus jewish law. Moses is considered today in the jewish tradition to be the greatest prophet of all time for this reason.