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