Judaism

the prophet Abraham, who they believe was the first prophet, and by his descendants. Through their sacred rituals and practices, the Abrahamic religions each are similar and different in the demonstration of their belief in one God. Believers in Judaism, who are commonly known as jews, display their belief in one god (Yaweh) through their sacred rituals and practises. The teffilfin and mezuzah act as a constant…

Hypothesis of Julius Wellhausen The documentary hypothesis ( Wellhausen hypothesis ) believes that the Torah or the five books of Moses was derived from originally independent, parallel and complete narrative, where it was combined into the current for by a number of editors. In an attempt to reconcile in the 18th and 19th century biblical scholars using sources eventually arrived at the theory that the Torah was composed together from several, each…

In the hundreds of years separating the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in 326 CE to now, it has been destroyed and rebuilt numerous times, but the religious significance of the building has remained the same, if not increased. The Church was destroyed in 1009 by Caliph Hakim, and was not rebuilt until after 1099, when the Crusaders conquered Jerusalem and began to expand the Church (Wilkinson, 1978, p. 11-12). Rebuilding and increasing the size of the Church allowed the…

During the Roman Empire, Jews and Christians were treated indifferently compared to polytheists. During the Great Revolt (66-70 CE), Rome invaded Judea and destroyed the Second Temple in 70 CE. In "Sources for the Cultures of the West" Document 7.1, Josephus explains how Jews were treated during the Roman invasion of Jerusalem. "The number of corpses that lay in piles everywhere was indeed a horrible sight...The number of Jews who died of famine in the city was prodigious, their sufferings…

everything in the world deals with space and the accumulation of things of that nature, the Sabbath’s focus is rather on time. Heschel expands on this idea claiming that while other creation stories hold a significance on the site of creation, in Judaism, rather than emphasizing site, there is an overarching importance placed on time. He expands on this idea by further connecting how the concepts of space, time, and God are related by going so far as to say that “time is God’s gift to the…

commentators, the Jewish diaspora in the hellenistic period was forced between two worlds, on one side, the values of the Graeco-Romans, and on the other the Mosaic law. Hence, in conformity with the Graeco-Roman period producing the most changes in Judaism, Josephus and Artapanus hellenized their biblical historical narratives as a provenance of advertising Greek culture on ancient Jewry. While Josephus attempted to earn the respect of the educated Romans, Artapanus focused on reproducing…

religions of the past. They got their word from Christ, who was the son of God. The God of the Jewish Religion. I think the connection of the Jewish and Christian religion goes to show that post-pluralism does not corrupt religions. The religions of Judaism and Christianity borrowed from one each other and grew from each other. These are two of the largest religions in the world today. The concept of them borrowing from each other did…

Throughout the Zionism movement there were many publications written, some written by men and some by women. Through the men’s publications one can see how they portray women during the movement as cold, tough and insensible. And looking at publications written by woman one can see a vast difference in the portrayal of women during the Zionism movement. The Two articles The calf written by Mordechai Ze’ev Feierberg and Burned out written by Mendele Mokher Sefarim were written through a males…

I am looking forward to sharing a room with you in the coming years. As we are both part of a Jewish community, I wanted to share with you my Jewish story so that you can understand who I truly am. In order to do this, I will be utilizing David Hartman’s narrative called “Auschwitz or Sinai” in order to connect my affinity for the Sinai model to two critical…

the assimilation of the Hebrew Bible into Christian Scripture made a worry that recently changed over Christians may be helpless to Jewish impact. These worries drove in two bearings. On the otherworldly plane, they prompted uplifted denigration of Judaism with an end goal to stress the refinements between Christian truth and Jewish blunder; on the more down to earth plane, they prompted calls for isolating Jews from Christians so that there may be no destructive contact. The ascent of Latin…