Judaism Terms

• "Five Books"
• The first five Books of the Bible, the Jews refer to these five books as Torah 

• "Teaching" "Instruction"
• Composed between 600bce-70ce
• Consists of the foundational narrative of the Jewish people: their call into being by their God, their trials and tribulations, and their covenant with their God 
• First five books of the Tanakh written in Biblical Hebrew
• All the teachings found in the Torah, both written and oral, were given by God to Moses

• Composed after the second destruction of the temple in 70 ce
• Includes: Tanakh and Mishnah

the written Torah 

• "repetition"
• the first major written redaction of the Jewish oral traditions
• philosophical law coed 200 ce

• Can refer to precepts and commandments as commanded by God
• Also can refer to a moral deed performed as a religious duty.

• "instruction, learning" 
• Two components: The Mishnah and the Gemara

• "Interpretation" 
• A way of interpreting biblical stories that goes beyond simple distillation of religious, legal, or moral teachings. It fills in many gaps left in the biblical narrative regarding events and personalities that are only hinted at

An individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine, and to speak for them, serving as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people

"God" 

The national god of Israel in the Hebrew Bible

between the Jews and God 

• The practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans. 
• Condemned in Judaism 

• His story is told in chapters 11-25 of the Book of Genesis
• According to the account in Genesis, at the age of 75, Abram, obeying God's command, took his wife Sarai, and his household and traveled from Haran to Shechem in Canaan. Abram enters into a covenant with God, signified by the rite of circumcision. Abram is now known as Abraham (“father of many nations”)
• Abraham is the father of the Israelites through his son Isaac.

• The only son Abraham had with his wife Sarah
• Isaac was one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and did not leave Canaan

Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob,

Wife of Abraham, and mother of Isaac

• Wife of Isaac
• One of the Matriarchs (a woman who rules a family) of Judaism

• 1391–1271 BCE
• a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed. 
• he is the most important prophet in Judaism

the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God according to the Book of Exodus