Border Characteristics
Messianic, African Hebrew, Samaritan, and Karaite
What are the four different border groups in this chapter?
This group of individuals are who the Samaritans claim to have directly descended from.
Who are the biblical Israelites?
Believe that African Americans are the descendants of an ancient biblical tribe.
Who are the Israelites?
Rejects the Talmud and other rabbinic texts in favor of strict adherence of Torah
Who are the Karaites
Belief that distinguishes Messianic Jews
What is the belief in Jesus as the messiah
Attributes of groups within a community that distinguish them from the dominant group and cause their identity to be questioned, suspected, or even rejected outright. These characteristics play a central role in shaping social identities within communities
What are border characteristics?
Status assigned by the State of Israel to Samaritan Jews since a major decision in 1992.
What is ‘Non-Jew’ or ‘Non-Jewish?’
The government denied this from them for more than two decades in Israel
What is Israeli citizenship?
Originally excluded Karaites by Israeli Government
What is the law of return
The two central texts of Messianic Judaisms
What is the Christian Bible and Hebrew Torah
Claiming to be the true descendants of the biblical Israelites (i.e., authenticity); (2) rejection of rabbinic authority; and (3) denial that they are Jews although others say they are.
What are the 3 main border characteristics?
This is the mountain that Samaritans believe to be their cultural/sacred center rather than Mount Zion.
What is Mount Gerizim?
AHIJ understanding of what this means, rejects the notion that the Jewish claim to Israel is based solely on religious grounds, and instead view their connection to the land as a matter of ancestral heritage and cultural identity.
What is zionism?
Kaarites reject this interpretation of Judaisms
What is rabbinic Judaism
Organization promotes evangelism and education among Jews about Jesus
What is Jews for Jesus
Plays a significant role in defining Jewish identity, as it is the only nation-state that grants automatic citizenship to people based on their having a Jewish identity. This impacts individuals within the Jewish community by determining their legal status and access to certain rights and privileges.
What is the Israeli government?
This is the group that claims that Samaritan Jews are Jewish.
Who is no one?
AHIJ community observe the Sabbath, Dietary restrictions, Prayer and meditation, cultural celebrations, and other community service
What are the AHIJ key religious practices?
The Karaite prayer book
What is the Siddur
Basis Jewish holiday for the Messianic Jewish celebration of Yeshua's death and resurrection
What is Passover?
This plays a significant role in shaping how individuals interact with one another on a daily basis. Definitions of these identities can impact individuals' status and lead to life-and-death consequences, especially for minority groups.
What are the significance of social identities within communities?
Scholars argue that this event was a major factor in further solidifying Samaritan Jews as a border group from mainstream Jews.
What is the destruction of the Samaritan temple on Mount Gerizim?
Sees their religious practices and beliefs that bring a type of CIVIL FAIRNESS, being deeply connected to their social, economic, and political values, and they seek to live out their faith in a way that promotes justice, equality, and liberation for all people.
What is social justice?
Karaite definition of who is a Jew
What is patrilineal descent
Call their leaders "rabbi," have an ark containing a Torah scroll in their prayer space, wear kippot and tallitot, and attaching mezuzot to the doorways of their synagogues.
What are conventional Jewish rituals observed by Messianic Jews