Religion Exam 2
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- tribal and family life in cultural origin:
- passed through gen from father to so
- royal psalms:
- psalms celebrating davidic kings
- Periods of Former prophets:
- 650 years
- Babylonian Creation Epic Title:
- Genesis or "Enuma Elish dates back to 2000 BCE
- book of psalms:
- 150 poems at composted at different times over six centuries
- creation ex nihilo:
- created out of nothing
- Latter prophets periods:
- 1;. assyrian crisis, 2. the babylonian threat, or 3 the post exilic readjustment
- Negative Wisdom:
- "pessimistic wisdom" why bad things happen to good people
- exodus:
- the core of Israelite faith more than other books in the hebrew bible
- scribal-courtly class in cultural origin:
- internal contacts with scribes in other cultures, borrowing and sharing international wisdom, amenemope--he who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless persuits will have plenty of poverty
- positive wisdom:
- based on torah\pentateuch, "g-d rewards and helps the honest and righteous person who fulfills the law"
- Geneaology:
- an account of the descent of a person, family, or other social group
- Creation:
- concept of a process of generation: phenomena generated out of preexisting substances
- lament:
- a poem emphasizing sorrow, grief, mourning, or regret i.e psalm 22
- hellenistic:
- mixture of classical greek civilization with older cultures of the near east, dated as beginning with the death of alexander the great
- polytheism:
- observes diversity of natual phenomena, and the natural conflict and change between them
- Form:
- a list of names, accompanied by comments about father-son relationships, legnths of reigns, comments about persons life spans and their deeds
- apocalyptic writing:
- literature distinguished by several characteristics such as univerality, cosmic dualism, ethical dualism, predestination, exclusivism, limited theology, belief in violent god, eschatological preoccupations, use of symbols and code words
- Torah:
- the old testament
- doxology:
- an expression of praise to god that typically concludes a confession of faith, that rounds off the collection as a whole
- ANE wisdom: four basics:
- 1. absense of any theory of salvation, 2. emphasis on practical lessons of life 3 emphasis on justice, vengeance, and retribution
- monotheism:
- makes same observations as polytheism and concludes that all diversity comes from a single g-d who creates diversity, change, and conflict evident in the cosmos
- Hykos:
- Egyptian for "foreign princes"
- Canonical:
- divided by times
- "the Generative Principal"
- "World Ocean"...contained anything that was going to be.
- sabbath:
- the seventh day of the week in which all the work ceases
- Theos:
- a generic word for G-d
- elite classes in cultural origin:
- wisdom derived from royal and other elite classes, written by scribes
- theology's:
- not in the book of genesis, origins and genealogies of the gods of the ancient Greeks
- 528-333 bc:
- persian rules israel, then comes macedonian\greek rule by alexandar the great, then hellenistic rule under egypt, then syrian
- henotheism::
- a subcategory of polytheism which argues that the g-ds of one tribe or nation is the only g-d to be wroshipped b ut other g-ds do exist but are less powerful
- 1000BC to 922 BC:
- Israel became a state under Kings David and Solomon--"Golden Age"
- 167-164:
- maccabean war of revolt, jewish autonomy existed as Hasmonean dynasty
- 323 BC:
- maccabean war of revolt, jewish autonomy existed as Hasmonean dynasty
- bible: the latter prophets: three major:
- isiah, jeremaih, Ezekiel's twelve minor,,,750 BCE-460BCE
- King Herod:
- son of a powerful king of judea
- Former and Latter classical prophecy:
- lasts 800 years, overlaps
- 922 BC:
- Israel split into two kingdoms: 1 Israel, 922-587,ten tribes, destroyed by Assyrians. 2. Judah, 922-587, two tribes (judah and benjamin), destroyed by neo-babylonians
- 90 AD:
- Jews under rabbi johanan ben zakkai turned judiasm into a religion of the "book"
- Cosmogony:
- rhetoric of myth--making of skies and earth, creation of cosmos
- anthelitical parallelism:
- the psalms--one line makes a statement that next lines presses it's opposite
- Hasmoneans:
- the maccabean dynasty
- nov. 29, 1947:
- WWII ends, Israel becomes modern state.
- function of genealogies:
- to trace origins of ethnic or social group, provide political authority to those in power
- hasidim:
- pious ones loyal to the torah
- book of prophets:
- dedicated to Solomon
- Song of Songs:
- poem celebrating the sexual passion challenges
- theocracy:
- a society ruled directly by god
- 66-72 AD:
- bar Kokhba revolt
- Pentateuch:
- the first five books of the old testament
- firmament:
- the dome over heaven which divided the primal waters above t he domed sky from those below
- synthetic\formal parallelism:
- is not, strictly speaking, parallelism at all
- 63 BC:
- rule under general pompey
- periods of latter prophets:
- 300 years
- nevi'im:
- the prophets, anthologies of oracles
- eschatology:
- the doctrine of "last things"
- bible: the former prophets:
- six books: joshua, judges, samuel 1, samuel 2, kings 1, kings 2 1250-587 BCE
- mishnah:
- record compiled by the rabbi judah, first document of rabbinic judiasm
- cosmos:
- orderly system characterized by predictability and harmony.
- symbol:
- a sign that represents somethign other than itself.