Living Religions

Title:	Living Religions
Description:	Living Religions 5th Edition Mary Pat Fisher
Number of Cards:	10
Author:	mgolitsine9
Created:	2005-04-14
Tags:	religions
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	Question	Answer	Note/Hint
	Tanakh	the Old Testament
	Talmund	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.

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