PHIL 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rabbinic Judaism, Mishnaic Hebrew, Mishneh Torah

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 100
• Professor: Ebel Jonathan

Document Summary

Please post specific class notes from lectures you may have. He said the test will lean toward what was said in lecture vs. primary readings/textbooks. First temple and destruction date first temple destroyed by babylonians in 586 bce. Hebrew bible- tanakh collection of books considered sacred, written over a thousand years, contains multiple genres (history, law, poetry) A new understanding, teaching or law, location of exodus narrative, first part of the book of tanakh (five books of moses), god understood as author of the torahas. Begins after the destruction of the second temple in 70 ce. Oral law, god gave moses oral torah on mt. Midrash line-by-line interpretations of stories and laws from the tanakh. Commentaries to the hebrew bible (most based on the synagogue sermons) Emergence of academies for the study of torah. Who decides the meaning of the torah after the destruction of the second temple. This question may just be asking for you to know that the.