Beginnings of Judaism (The Great Courses 6457)

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Beginnings of Judaism (The Great Courses 6457) (Audiobook) By Professor Isaiah M. Gafni
2008 | 12 hours and 19 mins | ISBN: n/a | MP3 96 kbps | 533 MB
How did Judaism develop from its biblical roots to the highly developed system we know today? What has changed?and what has remained constant? The answers to these questions are relevant to all faiths, as well as to anyone seeking to broaden their understanding of ancient history?a past that is inexorably linked to the present.

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The roots of Judaism reach back to the Hebrew Bible?also known as the Old Testament by Christians. For thousands of years, Jews have looked to these scriptures for their origins, and have located in them the tenets of their faith. The Bible provides Jews reasons for sadness and joy, wisdom, and most of all, a profound belief in what God expects of them and has promised to them.

Though Jews of every generation have recognized and cherished the Bible as the ultimate source of all Jewish existence, much of what is recognized today as Judaism does not appear in the Bible.

For example, worshipping in places other than the single, original Temple in Jerusalem is expressly forbidden by the Bible. Nevertheless, Jews today worship in synagogues wherever there might be a Jewish community. Similarly, the Rabbinic model, for centuries the most visible example of religious and communal leadership among Jews, is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

In Beginnings of Judaism, Professor Isaiah M. Gafni of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem leads a spirited and provocative exploration of how the Jewish faith struggled to continually redefine itself during the first thousand years after the completion of the last books of the Hebrew Bible, tenaciously clinging to existence through circumstances that might well have torn it asunder.

This course explores the evolution of an ancient faith into a system of beliefs, practices, and laws recognizable today as Judaism. We discover a tradition of vigorous and joyous debate?where reinterpretation coexists with profound acceptance of the original instructions from God regarding the practice of faith.

Insights into this historical evolution?especially with respect to the roles of Jerusalem and the Diaspora in Jewish history?can also deepen one's perception of the historical, psychological, and religious forces at play in the Middle East today.

Course Lecture Titles
1. The Beginnings of Judaism?Biblical Roots
2. New Challenges in the Late Biblical Period
3. Jews under Persian Rule?The Return to Zion
4. The Challenge of Hellenism
5. The Maccabees?From Rebels to Kings
6. The Canonization of the Hebrew Bible
7. Translating the Bible?The Septuagint
8. Adding to the Bible?The Apocrypha
9. Tobit?A New Path of Righteousness
10. Retelling the Bible?The Book of Jubilees
11. Revealing the Unknown
12. "Judaism" or "Judaisms"?
13. Sectarianism?Pharisees and Sadducees
14. Out of the Caves?Discovery at Qumran
15. The End of Days?Messianic Eschatology
16. Other Lands, Other Jews?The Diaspora
17. Judaism in the Hellenistic World
18. Changing God's Address?Temple to Synagogue
19. Rome Arrives in Jerusalem
20. Parting with the Temple
21. From Jerusalem to Yavne?Rabbinic Judaism
22. The Shaping of Rabbinic Judaism
23. A Violent Epilogue?Bar Kokhba
24. From "Roots" to "Tree"
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