Salvation History and Jewish Identity
Title: Salvation History and Jewish Identity
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 1242 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Salvation History and Jewish Identity
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 1242 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Salvation History and Jewish Identity
Throughout the ages, the history of the Jewish people has been passed on and symbolized through Creation, Revelation, and Redemption, the three main components of the Salvation History. Elements of these components are re-enacted daily, weekly, and yearly in rituals so as to recognize, give tribute, and remembrance to the mythical history of the Jews. It is through the events of Creation, Revelation, and Redemption that communal identity of the
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the community or periodically during the life cycle. The Jewish people of the past and of today have had these sacred rituals to keep them together in similar identity and space. The myths of Creation, Revelation, and Redemption are the ties that have bound the Jewish people together in common ritual and therefore, knowledge and identity.
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**Bibliography**
Sacred Texts of the World A Universal Anthology, Ninian Smart & Richard D. Hecht, 1982
Judaism, Michael A. Fishbane, 1987