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Religious Terms 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Yahwist Source | written in Judah during United Monarchy. Uses name YHWH (God's personal name only known by Moses). Portrays God in human form. |
| Priestly Source | written during the exile or after the return. uses name Elohim until his personal name was revealed. Transcendent view of God (throwned in Heaven). Formulaic and repetitive. |
| YHWH | Personal name of God in Hebrew only known by Moses. |
| Elohim | Personal name of God in priestly source |
| Image of God | How humans were made in Genesis 1 |
| Sabbath | Seventh of creation. Celebrated by Jews to represent rest, cannot do ANY work. |
| Myth | metaphor in story form things of collective importance. |
| Creation ex nihilo | God creating everything from nothing |
| Divine council | group of God's advisors (angels). Who Jews believe God is talking to in the text when he uses "us/our" |
| Adam | The first human to be created by God, from dust and awakened by his breath. |
| Adamah | the ground |
| ish | man |
| ishshah | woman |
| Phyllis Trible | It is not good for ha-adam to be alone |
| Etiology | "one flesh" marriage |
| Tree of life | tree that gives you wisdom if you read from it; wisdom comes from the Torah |
| Serpent | In Judaism its just a snake; in Christianity it is Satan |
| Free will | Everyone is born with the ability to choose how they want to live and worship who they want. Learn to make good choices |
| Tikkun Olam | The belief in Judaism that says we should leave the world better than we left it. We should live with a purpose. |
| Satan (shayton, iblis) | classification of beings that are tempters; in Christianity and Islam; enemy of humans; angel that disobeyed God and was banished to hell, seeks after human souls |
| Original sin | The idea that we are all born into sin because Adam and Eve ate from the tree of life and sinned |
| Prot-evangelium | The first mention of christ; Jesus is coming; "the offspring of the woman will crush head of the serpent" |
| Trinity | God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who Christians believe God was talking to when saying "us/our" |
| Logos | words; cosmic reason and divine wisdom |
| Preexistent Torah | Wisdom in the Torah that was with God before he established life |
| Preexistent Christ | wisdom as logos, Jesus was with God before he established life |
| Incarnation | enfleshing of the world |
| Apocalypse | new creation: Revelation 21-22; unveiling; cosmic battle between good and evil |
| New heaven and new earth | present: home of God with mortals, water as gift of life, light, tree of life -immortality , no sin absent: sea-watery abyss (chaos), death, mourning, pain, sun and moon, darkness, anything cursed in the beginning |
| Paul/saul | Paul: gentile name; roman citizen; born in tarsus Saul: jewish name; pharisee; studied in jerusalem conversion on road to Damascus missionary to gentiles most important thing about Jesus is ressurection |
| Adam/christ typology | Jesus is the same as humans but also the same as God all at once. We are closer to him compared to Islam, but he is still messiah |
| Universalism | belief that all humankind will eventually be saved |
| Michael lodahl | |
| Mother of the book | Umm al kitab; wisdom with God at the beginning |
| Umm al kitab | Mother of the book; wisdom with God at the beginning |
| Shirk | polytheism |
| Iblis | Personal name of Satan, mainly mentioned in Islam |
| Shaytan | Hebrew name for satan |
| Jinn | out of the fire of scorching wind, mortal, mischievous, free-will; not hell |
| Hawwa | Arabic name for eve |
| Abd | servant of God |
| Khalifah | successor, vigerant, deputy, trustee |
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