RLGA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Rabbinic Judaism, Judah Bar Ilai, Judah The Prince
Document Summary
Apocalypse: greek work unveiling , latin is revelation ; final battle bt forces of light and darkness expected at the end of time. Berith: hebrew term for covenant, the special relationship bt god and jews. Diaspora: dispersal, jewish world outside the land of ancient israel, began with babylon exile, not all jews returned. Documentary hypothesis: theory that the pentateuch was not written by one person (moses) but compiled over long period of time from multiple sources. Eschatology: doctrine concerning the end of the age, from the greek for study of the end . Exile: deportation of jew leaders from jerusalem to mesopotamia by the conquering babylonians in. 586, disrupting local israelites political ritual and agricultural institutions, it marked the transition from. Exodus: migration of hebrews from egypt under the leadership of moses, understood in later hebrew thought as marking the birth of the israelite nation.
