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The Bible and the Scriptural Origins of Judaism

The Bible and the Scriptural Origins of Judaism. Introduction to Judaism: Lecture 5. Lecture. New Interpretations of Israel:”Which Law, Whose Rationality: Forces that Shape Israel and Palestine.” Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 7pm Kane 220. Goals for Today’s Class.

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The Bible and the Scriptural Origins of Judaism

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  1. The Bible and the Scriptural Origins of Judaism Introduction to Judaism: Lecture 5

  2. Lecture • New Interpretations of Israel:”Which Law, Whose Rationality: Forces that Shape Israel and Palestine.” • Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 7pm • Kane 220

  3. Goals for Today’s Class • Consider relationship between scripture and the interpretive tradition • Identify key themes in the Hebrew Bible • Discuss the motivating factors influencing these themes

  4. How to Approach Scripture • What is Scripture? • Analyzing a Historical document • Composed and Redacted much later • Record of community imagining the past • What is the Limitation of Scripture?

  5. Scripture and Interpretive Tradition • “Fluid literary traditions solidify into unchangeable scripture; scripture in turn generates new forms of fluid literary tradition through interpretation.” (JCM p. 5) • Scripture=Fixed • Tradition/Interpretation=Dynamic

  6. The TaNaKh • Torah (5 Books of Moses) • Establishment of covenant • Promise (land, seed) and Warnings • Nevi’im (Prophets) • Covenant Broken • Exile, Loss of Land • Ketuvim (writings) • Covenant restored

  7. Key Themes • Creation • Revelation/Covenant With People • Abraham Model in Genesis • Moses Model in Exodus • Exile and Redemption • Focus on exile, slavery

  8. The Creation Story(ies) • Read page 2-3 from “Then God said…and were not ashamed” • Do you see evidence of multiple stories of the creation of man/woman? Where? • What differences in content or language to you note between the two stories? Are they conflicting? • What challenges and possibilities do multiple narratives have for a religious tradition?

  9. The End of the Garden of Eden • How does the expulsion from the Garden of Eden already contain in a universal form some of the central themes in the relationship between God and the Jewish people?

  10. The Covenant with Abram “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bles you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 11)

  11. “I am who I am” • But Moses said the God, “If I come to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The god of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me ‘what is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” He said further, “Thus shall you say to the Israelites, ‘I AM has sent me to you…The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” (Exodus 2:23-3:20)

  12. I AM WHO I AM • What do we know about God • Why the emphasis on forefathers? • The Conditional Covenant of Exodus (p. 9)

  13. The Conditional Covenant • What do we learn about God in Exodus narratives? • God as lawgiver • “I am who I am” • Relationship between God and Israel • Commandment

  14. Deuteronomy 30 • Clear expression of conditional covenant • Covenant and destruction of the Second Temple

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