REL 10200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Passover, Talmud, Immanence
28 Mar 2017
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As jewish philosophy developed over the centuries, an understanding of gods nature deepened, and additional qualities such as omniscience and omnipotence were added to the composite portrait of the deity. Judaism"s idea of divine transcendence presupposes that a fundamental difference in reality exists between god and the world. Yet for all its emphasis on god"s otherness . Judaism is not lacking a sense of god"s nearness or immanence. Torah means teaching and in its most restrictive sense it refers to the first five books of the hebrew bible. The multivolume anthology of interpretive and folkloristic writings, more commonly called the talmud represents the final extension in jewish history of the idea of revelation. At the core of the torah tradition lies the concept of the mitzvoth and it would not be unreasonable to describe judaism as religion of divine commandments.
