1) The giving of the Torah (Exodus ch.19-20), which was accompanied by the covenant in which the Israelites undertook to obey God (Exodus ch.19 and 24)
2) The commandments, throughout the Torah
3) The Exodus from Egypt (Exodus ch.12), which went together with God's promise to bring the Israelites into the Holy Land (Exodus ch.6), His command that they take it from the Canaanites, and His promise to help them in doing so (Exodus ch.23)
what belief set the Israelite's apart from other groups living in the Fertile Crescent
what belief set the Israelite's apart from other groups living in the Fertile Crescent
Monotheism
1) That God is One. 2) That Moses was a major Israelite prophet. 3) That the Torah is a holy Jewish text. 4) That Israel was/is the Jewish homeland.
Abraham
he Shinto belief of man's harmony with nature.
Very much so. Israelite existence was based upon the covenant with God. See also:What is God like?The covenantIsraelite society
God speaking to the Israelite forefathers, and creating a covenant with them God taking the Israelites out of Egypt The Giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai God promising Canaan to the Israelites God setting the Israelites straight whenever they strayed in any way All the laws of the Torah
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Zionism.
A:No king of Israel ever eliminated Baal worship. The Bible itself tells us that the northern Hebrew kingdom, Israel, was polytheistic right up until its final destruction in 722 BCE. Whether the community at Elephantine in southern Egypt was of Israelite or Judahite origin, archaeology provides a glimpse of Israelite belief in the centuries immediately following the destruction of Israel and the subsequent fall of Judah. The local Elephantine temple was dedicated to YHWH, but they also worshipped a god Bethel and the Canaanite goddess Anat, whether or not there was also an ongoing worship of Baal. Mary Joan Winn Leith (The Oxford History of the Biblical World, lsrael among the Nations) says that the Yahwism of Elephantine may preserve ancient elements of Israelite Yahwism, frozen in time.
The belief that memory is recorded as writing in the brain