Notes: Religion of the Near East

Talmud- commentary on the Law (Torah)
- how to apply Law today
- from Rabbis (teacher)

Holocaust - extermination of Jews (6 million) during WWII in Eastern Europe by Germany

-1948 Israel was restored
-70 ad Israel scattered "diaspora" and temple destroyed

1.Orthodox - most conservative
2.Conservative - like evangicals
3.Reformed - empasis on moral teachings
4.Reconstuctive - most liberal, small minority, updates Judaism for modern age
-accepts homosexuals
-mainline, Episcipalian and Lutheran

Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement
Passover -
Rash Hassan - Jewish New Year
Hannakuah - festival of lights
-Book of Macabees - Jewish revolt against Greeks in 2nd century B.C. and rededication of the temple
-Miracle of Lamp lasting 8 days

Anichus Epiphanes - ruler