Suggestions for Learning Aids
REVISED (FEWER) Terms, people and events for which you should be prepared to identify and give the importance:
Maccabean Revolt Babylonian Exile Passover YHWH Midrash Torah Rashi Sadducees Zaddik Ghettos Sabbath
Documentary hypothesis Hellenistic Judaism Diaspora Second Commonwealth Mishnah Logos Jewish Enlightenment Pharisees Kabbalah Reform Judaism Conservative Judaism
Temple Mount Moses Septuagint Hanukkah Rabbi Judah Rabbi Covenant Essenes Hasidism Pogrom Sukkoth
Prophets Abraham and Sarah Menorah Tanakh Talmud Zionism Moses Maimonides Zealots Moses Mendelssohn Holocaust Orthodox Judaism
Note that some terms overlap (i.e.: one cannot properly identify the Talmud without also identifying the Mishnah, or the Shema without Tefillin, or the Holocaust without pogroms, Zionism, or Abraham and Sarah without the covenant, or Hanukkah without the menorah and the Maccabean revolt, and so on). This is OK. Making these connections is what this is all about. Moreover, it shows that the list is less daunting as one might think at first glance. Should you wish to go deeper in understanding on any one of the terms above, below you will find a list – mostly online – of sources that should be helpful. This is merely additional sources and you are not required to consult them.
Suggestions for Learning Aids 1. Judaism 101 is an online encyclopedia of Judaism covering orthodox Jewish beliefs, people, places, things, language, scripture, holidays, practices, and customs. http://www.jewfaq.org/index.htm 2. Judaism: History, Belief and Practice, by Dan Cohn Sherbok, Routledge Press, 2003. And its accompanying website: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/0415236614/default.asp 3. Modern Judaism, edited by Nicolas de Lange and Miri Freud-Kandel, Oxford Press, 2005 4. Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought 5. What is ‘being Jewish?’ This web site is devoted to discussions of that nature. http://www.beingjewish.com/ 6. Judaism and Jewish Resources. A website that lists practically anything related to Judaism. http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html
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Maccabean Revolt Babylonian Exile Passover YHWH Midrash Torah Rashi Sadducees Zaddik Ghettos Sabbath
Documentary hypothesis Hellenistic Judaism Diaspora Second Commonwealth Mishnah Logos Jewish Enlightenment Pharisees Kabbalah Reform Judaism Conservative Judaism
Temple Mount Moses Septuagint Hanukkah Rabbi Judah Rabbi Covenant Essenes Hasidism Pogrom Sukkoth
Prophets Abraham and Sarah Menorah Tanakh Talmud Zionism Moses Maimonides Zealots Moses Mendelssohn Holocaust Orthodox Judaism
Note that some terms overlap (i.e.: one cannot properly identify the Talmud without also identifying the Mishnah, or the Shema without Tefillin, or the Holocaust without pogroms, Zionism, or Abraham and Sarah without the covenant, or Hanukkah without the menorah and the Maccabean revolt, and so on). This is OK. Making these connections is what this is all about. Moreover, it shows that the list is less daunting as one might think at first glance. Should you wish to go deeper in understanding on any one of the terms above, below you will find a list – mostly online – of sources that should be helpful. This is merely additional sources and you are not required to consult them.
Suggestions for Learning Aids 1. Judaism 101 is an online encyclopedia of Judaism covering orthodox Jewish beliefs, people, places, things, language, scripture, holidays, practices, and customs. http://www.jewfaq.org/index.htm 2. Judaism: History, Belief and Practice, by Dan Cohn Sherbok, Routledge Press, 2003. And its accompanying website: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/0415236614/default.asp 3. Modern Judaism, edited by Nicolas de Lange and Miri Freud-Kandel, Oxford Press, 2005 4. Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought 5. What is ‘being Jewish?’ This web site is devoted to discussions of that nature. http://www.beingjewish.com/ 6. Judaism and Jewish Resources. A website that lists practically anything related to Judaism. http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html
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