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Tanakh
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the Old Testament
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Talmund
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Jewish law and lore
- codified compendium of teachings and traditional practices |
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Pentateuch
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"five books of Moses"
final form in 500 BCE |
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Abraham
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first patriarch
1700 - 1900 BCE |
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Semite
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A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa
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Roman rule of Judaea
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63BCE General Pompey was invited to resolve conflict but instead took over the country.
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Destruction of the Second Temple
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70CE
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Minyan
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a quorum of ten adult males
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Midrash
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Rabbis commentaries on Hebrew scriptures. Halakhah, "proper conduct", legal decisions. Haggadah, folklore, sociologial and historial knowledge, theologial arguments, ritual traditions, sermons, and mystical teachings.
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Exegesis
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Process of introducing new ideas into Judaism, as if they were merely revealing what already existed in the scriptures.
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