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?
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?
