What are the Apocryphal Books in the Bible? What does the Book of Genesis say about God? Is animism monotheistic or polytheistic? What does the Book of Genesis reveal about human nature? What is the Popol Vuh written on? What are the sacred writings of Judaism called?
Is Judaism the oldest monotheistic religion? What country is the holy place of Judaism? What are the main sections of the Hebrew Bible? What were the three major groups of Israelites that formed in the wake of the Babylonian destruction and how were they related to each other?
Christians are monotheistic, i.e., they believe there's only one God, and he created the heavens and the earth. This divine Godhead consists of three parts: the father (God himself), the son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit. What are the 3 branches of Judaism? Here are brief descr...
Abraham was called upon to be the father of the Jews, who were deemed the “chosen people.” The central religious text in Judaism is the Torah, which is comprised of the first five books of the Old Testament. Other religious texts are the rabbinic writings of the Talmud and...
Judaism is… “A 4000 year old tradition with ideas about what it means to be human and how to make the world a holy place” (Rabbi Harold Kushner, To Life) A “covenant relationship” between God and the Hebrew people A celebration and sanctification of life A faith, a people, a way...
Holy texts in Norse Paganism Aside from runestones, like the ones you can see in museums across the region, there aren’t any written texts from pre-Christian Scandinavia. So there’s no ‘bible’ or specific religious text in Norse Paganism, and no list of commandments, either. ...
This system is very important in Kabbalah, the mystical tradition of Judaism, and is used as a method for interpreting the sacred texts. But apart from Jewish mysticism, even good old Evangelicals sometimes take a stab at understanding the workings of God by appropriating these ancient tools. ...
Jonathan Levi: That's amazing and I think it's really interesting, you know, I recently learned about kind of the origins of modern Judaism, even though growing up with it and in a homo deuce, I believe you all know Harare's book and he talks about this, you know, when the second...
“When my turn came to speak, I asked him how he intended to protect the rights of those who don’t align with his politics, Israelis who are not haredi or from the Religious Zionist camp. He responded dismissively: “If you Reformim want to secure your rights, m...
Christianity is amonotheisticreligion based on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who lived from 4 BCE to between 30 and 33 CE. The Christian holy book is the Bible. Some non-Christian religions, such as Islam and Judaism, also value the Bible. ...