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Judaism |
monotheistic |
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Haibiru |
tribal wanderers, children of eber |
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tetragrammation |
four letters representing something like yhwh |
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Covenant/Berith |
promise with god. do what he says he does good. |
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shofet |
judges/charismatic leaders in a semi-civilized society |
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henotheism |
certain gods belong to certain groups of people |
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judah |
south. jerusalem. david. falls 505 bce |
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israel |
north. place of sacrifice. capital: tirzah. samaria. falls in 722 bce |
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tirzah |
first capital of israel |
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diaspora |
spread creates questions of how to miantain covenant. |
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zoroastrianism |
persians influence on religion |
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babylonian exile |
blah blah |
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purity laws |
pharisees observed these |
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pharisees |
legally oriented, believed in resurrection, angels and demons (P for progressive) |
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sadducees |
aristocratic. very orthodox.j |
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essenes |
lived communally in a separate society concerned with purity |
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zealots |
radicals |
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am ha eretz |
"people of the land" 90% of total jewish population |
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rabbi |
jewish leader, master |
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Yeshiva |
"sitting" school for rabbis |
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torah |
first five books of the TaNaKh. |
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TaNakh |
Torah, Navim, Ketuvim |
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Midrash |
legal commentaries |
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Mishna |
Six orders. seeds, festivals, women, damages, holy things, purifications. based on oral law |
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halakhah |
"the way" legalities |
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aggadah |
narratives |
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Talmud |
Commentary on the mishnah |
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Saadia Gaon |
b. egypt. d. baghdad Gaon of Sura Bible to Arabic. Integrated philosophy into jewish thought. Kalam theology. "judaism is revealed truth - pure revelation" |
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Yehuda Ha-Levi |
Andalusian via Toledo "christianity and islam preparatory" |
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Moses ben Maimon |
"The Rambam" expelled to cairo. wrote mishnah torah. guide for the perplexed. "bible can be read metaphorically" "13 principles" |
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Maimonidean Controversy |
faith and reason arising from islamic kalam can revealed truths be discerned by reason? |
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"pale of settlement" |
ghettos and shtetls |
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wailing wall |
remains of second temple |
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eruv |
ritual enclosure |
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kosher |
types of food |
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shema |
central prayer |
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amidah |
standing prayer |
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kaddish |
hymn of praises to god |
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rosh hashanah |
jewish new year |
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yom kippur |
day of atonement |
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pesach |
passover |
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bar/bat mitzvah |
13th bday |
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mitzvot |
commandments from god |
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kabbalah |
mysticism |
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zohar |
kabbalah's main literature. describes divine mysteries through absorption into god. |
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devekut |
mystical union |
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merkabah |
chariot mysticism. based on ezekiels vidion. |
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Tikkun Olam |
"healing the world" |
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eyn sof |
without end. contracts and objectiifies self. |
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Isaac luria |
teaches of eyn sof. lurianic kabbalah. |
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Ha ari |
(the lion) elohi rabbi itzak |
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shabbati zevi |
declared himself messiah. |
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baal shem tov |
(besht) lord of the good name (isreal ben eliezer) |
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israel ben eliezer |
wandering teacher |
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the gaon of vilna |
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emancipation |
leads to encouraging of assimilation. french revolution grants jews full citizenship. |
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haskalah |
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moses mendelsson |
was really into german culture and such |
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reform judaism |
"modernize" the faith ideas: bible is symbolic. diet and purity laws impede holiness. spiritual commonunity. not a nation. |
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conservative judaism |
historical precedent over rational critique |
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orthodox judaism |
preservation of tradition. uses hebrew in services; emphasizes kosher meals. |
