Hebrew Bible
This is the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and their relationship with God.
The Second Creation Story; Genesis 2:4 - Genesis 3:22
The weekly practice of honoring the seventh day of Creation.
Sabbath/Shabbat.
Our current context that affects our reading of ancient texts (think back to Unit 1).
Modernity (or Post-Modernity, Ultra-Modernity)
Fill in the blanks: "The meaning of Sabbath is to celebrate _____ rather than _____."
"time rather than space," (Heschel, "Prologue," 10).
Tilley defines this term as one's relationship with their god(s), (Tilley 56).
Faith
The list of books included in the various bibles; means “rule” or “measuring stick” (Collins 3)
Canon
The practice detailed to Abraham to mark his house as God's chosen people.
Circumcision.
The stories in this collection of texts shapes the lives and practices of Jews throughout history, including Jewish people today.
The Hebrew Bible, Tanakh.
Fill in the blank: "Rest even from the thought of ______."
"the thought of labor," (Heschel, Part One, “Beyond Civilization,” 32).
Portier acknowledges the difficulty in defining this term due to it being a Modern category (Portier 51 - 52).
Religion
The Father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Abraham) almost sacrificed this person in Genesis 22.
Isaac
Passover, or Pesach, celebrates the the Exodus of the Israelites from Slavery in Egypt. This is the person who led them out.
Moses.
DAILY DOUBLE: The academic name of the genocide of European Jews by the Nazis AND the term used by many Jewish people today in describing the tragedy.
The Holocaust. The term Shoah is used by many Jewish people to denote those who were killed.
Fill in the blank: "The answer to the problem of civilization: not to flee from the realm of space; to work with things of space but to be in love with _______.”
"to be in love with eternity," (Heschel, Part Two, “Only Heaven and Nothing Else?” 48).
The reality of multiple religions existing in a society or region. Prothero and Nostra Aetate both respond to it.
Religious Diversity
This is the Term for the Hebrew Bible
Tanakh
Studying the Hebrew Bible in pairs
Havruta
Heschel was a rabbi who escaped persecution in Europe during World War II. He practiced this form of Judaism.
Hasidic Judaism (Orthodox Judaism).
Fill in the blanks: "The essence of the _____ _____ _____ is Sabbath eternal, and the seventh day in time is an example of eternity.” (Heschel, Part Three, “Intuitions of Eternity,” 74).
“The essence of the world to come is Sabbath eternal, and the seventh day in time is an example of eternity,” (Heschel, Part Three, “Intuitions of Eternity,” 74).
Prothero says this about calling all religions "different paths up the same mountain."
"dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue," (Prothero 2-3).
This is the Term for the Prophetic Books in the Hebrew Bible.
N'vi'im/Nevubim; The Torah is the Law and the Ketuvim is the Wisdom Writings
This practice occurs every fifty years (after 7 times of the 7 year cycle). It comes up in Leviticus 25 and includes the process of redemption for the people and land of Israel.
The Jubilee Year.
The notion of this that we hold today in our society is different than what Heschel presents in his book, The Sabbath.
Rest
Fill in the blank: "In later times ________ became a synonym for the life in the world to come, for eternal life."
"In later times, menuha became a synonym for the life in the world to come, for eternal life," (Heschel, Part One, "A Palace in Time," 21).
Portier argues this is seeing the sacred within the profane (Portier 69).
Analogical Approach to Religious Experience