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JWST 245:Jewish Life in the
Islamic World
Jewish Life Before the Islamic World
, • Five Books of Moses (Torah)
• Israelites (Bnei Yisra’el)
• Jews (Yehudi/m)
• The Temple
Key terms • Roman era
• Rabbinic Judaism
• Christianity
• Talmud
,Origins and origin
stories
• Jews themselves trace origins to the Five
Books of Moses (Torah).
• Abraham and Sarah à Exodus from Egypt
à revelation at Mount Sinai.
• Modern era: Scholars have called
traditional account into question.
• Historical and archeological research:
Uncertainty of Biblical stories and
figures but no definitive alternative
theory of origins.
, • If Abraham in Canaan or Exodus from Egypt, w
Where to are dates?
• Israelites (Bnei Yisra’el) as in the Bible or Jews
begin? With (Yehudi/m) after the Biblical period?
• Stakes: 4,000 years ago in the Middle Bronze A
whom to 2,500 years ago with destruction of Temple and
Babylonian exile? 2,000 years ago with emerge
begin? of Christianity?
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