1987 | The History of the Jews |
Pt I | p.30 | 7336 | A key moment is the idea of a single moral God, who imposes his morality on humanity |
Pt I | p.33 | 7337 | In Mosaic legal theory, crimes are sins and sins are crimes |
Pt I | p.34 | 7339 | Because human life is what is sacred, Mosaic law has no death penalty for property violations |
Pt I | p.34 | 7338 | Man's life is sacred, because it is made in God's image |
Pt I | p.40 | 7340 | Mosaic law was the first to embody the rule of law, and equality before the law |
Pt I | p.47 | 7341 | Sampson illustrates the idea that religious heroes often begin as outlaws and semi-criminals |
Pt I | p.74 | 7342 | Isaiah moved Israelite religion away from the local, onto a more universal plane |
Pt II | p.83 | 7345 | In exile the Jews became a nomocracy |
Pt II | p.83 | 7344 | Judaism involves circumcision, Sabbath, Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles, New Year, and Atonement |
Pt II | p.85 | 7347 | Zoroastrians believed in one eternal beneficent being, Creator through the holy spirit |
Pt II | p.102 | 7348 | The Jews sharply distinguish human and divine, but the Greeks pull them closer together |
Pt II | p.121 | 7349 | Immortality based on judgement of merit was developed by the Egyptians (not the Jews) |
Pt II | p.156 | 7353 | The Pharisees undermined slavery, by giving slaves responsibility and status in law courts |
Pt II | p.161 | 7354 | The main doctrine of the Pharisees was belief in resurrection and the afterlife |
Pt III | p.179 | 7355 | The Torah pre-existed creation, and was its blueprint |
Pt III | p.190 | 7356 | Pious Jews saw heaven as a vast library |