Summary: Jodendom

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• 1 Week 1 Is Judaism a religion?

• 1.1 Mijn lesaantekeningen

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• What two types of definition does Medsoe differentiate?

  Essential definitions, they can be subdivided into substantial and functional definitions. And Cluster Definitions, which represent the family-resemblance model.

• Through what cluster definition does Satlow define Judaism?

  Judaism is a family of communities struggling to make sense of a common identity or tradition.

• What three aspects make Jewish people Jewish

  1. Self-identity: Am yisrael - people of Israel. It has the family metaphor in there and pertains to their shared history.
  2. Texts: Expanding upon and continuing this shared history through the processing of old texts like the Talmud.
  3. Praxis: Through rituals, holidays, prayers and Sabbath, and the like.

• Why are maps a good metaphor to describe the way we look at what a group of people like the Jews are?

  Maps are dependent on the eye of the creator, there are different types of maps and every type has a story as to how and why certain boundaries or figures are drawn.

• 2 Week 2 'People of the Book', ancient Israel & Hebrew Bible

• 2.1 Mijn lesaantekeningen

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• In what five ways is the TaNaKh different from the Bible?

  1. The name is different
  2. The texts are differently ordered
  3. The language is different 
  4. The traditions are oral as well as written which makes for a larger body of scripture. 
  5. The books are differently interpreted

• How did Israel come to exist?

  Abraham made a covenant with God where he would slice his foreskin and God would give him Canaan, the country (sweet deal). Jacob fought with God and his name is changed to Israel. He has twelve sons, which start 12 Israelite tribes.

• What is Israel, besides a family?

  A people forged in the shared traumatic historical experience of enslavement and liberation, exile and in-gathering.

• Who destroyed the temple of Jerusalem and at what dates?

  586 BCE, the Babylonians destroyed the temple.
  70 CE, the Romans destroyed the temple.

• 3 Week 3 Inventing Judaism, religious diversity

• 3.1 Mijn les aantekeningen

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• Which temple are we talking about in Jewish history?

  The Jerusalem temple

• For what four reasons was the temple of importance to the jews?

  1. The place where the temple is built is supposedly the foundation stone: the first land to come above water when God drew back the oceans.
  2. It is the meeting place for God and humans. In the inner most part of the temple there is a room called the holy of holies where once per year you could meet God there.
  3. The ark of the covenant was supposedly there as well
  4. It's a place of pilgrimage where Jews make offerings and worship God on special occasions.