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Religious Studies
Judaism
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
12/08/2011

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Term
Books of Tanakh
Definition
Ketuvim, torah, Nevi'im
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Ketuvim
Definition
Writings
Term
Torah
Definition
Teachings, five books of Moses
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Nevi'im
Definition
Prophets
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First temple destroyed (year)
Definition
586
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Second temple destroyed (year)
Definition
70
Term
Mishnah
Definition
Major compilation of oral Torah with six orders (festivals, women, damages, holiness, purities)
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Talmud
Definition
Explains Mishnah (meanings, applications)
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Midrash
Definition
"seeking out" what it means to live by scripture in daily life, how to apply laws
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Pharisees
Definition
Moderate (middle/lower class) focused on oral torah
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Essenes
Definition
radicals, lived in communal existences outside Jerusalem (dead sea scrolls), wore white robes and studied scripture
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Zealots
Definition
Radicals, bitterly opposed Romans, lead guerrilla war attacks against Romans for four years and failed
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Sadducees
Definition
Wealthy uper class, wanted to keep peace with Romans, focus on written Torah
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Philo
Definition
Jewish philosopher that aimed to harmonize Greek and Jewish culture
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Josephus
Definition
Recorded Jewish history, focused on the destruction of Jewish temple
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3 Pilgrimage holidays
Definition
Passover (exodus) Savuot (Torah) Sukkot (festival of huts)
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Penitential Holidays
Definition
Rosh Hashana (new year) Yom Kippur (Atonement/judgement)
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Purim
Definition
Jews saved from Genocide in Persia
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Hanukah
Definition
Commemorate Hasmonean victory
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Sa'adia Gaon
Definition
Founder of Judeo-Arabic literature
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maimonides
Definition
Jewish philosopher, great scholar of Torah
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Mendelssohn
Definition
Father of Reform Judaism
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Sephardim
Definition
Jews of Spain, Morocco, and Mediterranean region
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Ashkenazim
Definition
Jews who came from central Europe
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Kabbalah
Definition
whole body of mystical literature
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