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What four characteristics are part of the Jewish understanding of God? (the opposite of "prosaic, chaotic, amoral, and hostile)
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1) God is more person than thing
2) There is one god 3) God is moral/righteous 4) God is benevolent |
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What significance is there to the idea that God created the universe?
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1) If God created the world is essentially good, has meaning/purpose (even when evil happens = berishith)
2) The world is for our use |
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What three "corollaries" follow from the Western coupling of body and spirit in man?
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1) Material aspect of life is important
2) Physical matter can participate in ultimate salvation 3) Nature can host the divine |
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What are the five traits which Judaism finds in the human person?
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Human frailty, grandeur, sin, freedom, divine love
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What are the four reasons that history has such significance to Jews?
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1) Context in which life is lived affects that life in every conceivable way
2) If contexts are important, so is collective action 3) Being governed by God, nothing within history happened accidentally 4) History important because opportunities it offered are not on a par |
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How did ancient Jewish understanding of God differ from those in India?
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1) For India, Human destiny lies outside history all together
2) God wouldn't have created history if it were unimportant 3) God's will transcended what was happening in history |
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What is the consequence of Judaism's sense of disharmony between God's will and the existing social order?
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1) Judaism laid the groundwork for the social conscience that has been a hallmark of Western Civilization
2) When things aren't as they should be, change is required |
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What does the word literally mean? What three concepts does it stand for?
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1) Torah - instruction or law
2) 10 Commandments, "the law", all the revelation of God A) God is letting himself be known B) 5 books of Moses 1) Genesis 2) Exodus - escape from Egypt 3) Leviticus - Jewish priest called Levites 4) Numbers 5) Deuteronomy |
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To what four danger areas do the Ten Commandments point?
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Force, wealth, sex, speech
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Define prophet
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Some who speaks for, or on the authority of another
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What are the three stages of prophecy as a historical movement?
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1) stage of prophetic guilds
2) individual pre-writing prophets 3) great writing prophets: Amos, Hosea, Jeremiah Isaiah, and others |
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What is the "Prophetic Principle"?
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1) God has high standards
2) Divinity won't put up with exploitation (misuse), corruption, and mediocrity (weakness) |
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What do all the Jewish prophets have in common?
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Every Human being is a child of God and therefore in possession of rights that even kings must respect
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What is "the Exile" and how did it shape the Jewish understanding of suffering?
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Experience of defeat and exile teaches Israelites the true worth of freedom which they took too lightly. Jews found in their exile was that of vicarious suffering: meaning that enters the lives of those that are willing to endure pain that others might be spared it
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What does it mean to say that suffering is redemptive?
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They gain more appreciation after suffering, meaning that enters the lives of those that are wiling to endure pain that others might be spared it
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What is Messianism?
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1) Two sides of Messianic Idea: Jews personified their hope is Messiah - the chosen one
1) Politico - national side 2) Spiritual - universal side |
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What are the four tensions/differences in the anticipated messianic scenarios?
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1) Different scenarios were scripted in which hope fluctuated between these two versions
2) The way Messianic age would arrive 3) Restorative and Utopian impulses in Judaism 4) Whether the new order would be continuous with previous history or would shake the world to its foundations and replace it (in the End of Days) with an aeon that was supernaturally different in kind. |
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What is the difference between orthodoxy and orthopraxy?
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1) Orthodoxy - right thing to believe
2) Orthoproxy - right way to do things; religious ritual and practice |
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What are the two functions of ritual?
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1) Eases us through unfamiliar situations, sets a particular death in perspective
2) Turns happy times into celebrations, Hallow life |
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What is piety and how does it preserve the sense that all things possess sanctity?
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The route to seeing the world as reflecting the source of all holiness, namely Yahweh
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What is revelation?
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Disclosure; as a theological concept, it means divine disclosure
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What three characteristics of God are disclosed in Exodus?
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1) Yahweh was powerful - able to outdo the mightiest power of time and whatever Gods might be backing it
2) God of goodness and love 3) God who intensely concerned with human affairs |
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What is a covenant? (not in new addition)
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Official agreement with God
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What unusual sign of the covenant was given to Abraham? (not in new addition)
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circumcision
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Describe the doctrine of election. What led the Jews to adopt it? How has it affected the Jews historically? (not in new addition)
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1) God chooses; God chose Jews for a particular purpose
2) Jews set themselves apart and people hated them |
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What is the scandal of particularity?
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1) The doctrine that God's doing can focus like burning glass on particular times, places, and peoples - in the interest, to be sure, of intentions that embrace human beings universally
2) At a particular time and place, God chose the Jews to speak to and they must pass a message along |
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What are the four components to total Judaism?
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1) Faith; believed
2) Observance; practiced 3) Culture; what it is to be Jewish 4) Nation; one Jewish people |
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What tow agonizing problmes face contemporary Judaism?
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1) Holocaust; what meaning can the concept of a chosen people have in the face of God who permitted this enormity
2) Idealistic argument for the state of Israel |