Ch1: In the Begining:
High God - Sky God - watching over people and punish for wrong doings
mana - numina - jinn
Mother Godess
Inana in ancient Sumeria
Ishtar in Babylon
Anat in Canaan
Isis in Egypt
Aphrodite in Greece
Enuma Elish - epic poem
watery waste => Apsu, Tiamat and Mummu
Lahmu and Lahamn
Ansher and Jishar
Anu and Ea (earth)
Marduk (Sun god - son of Ea)
(not complete)
Joshua - Successor of Moses
Ch2: One God:
Isaiah (warning), Amos and Hosea - Yahweh love
King Josiah - reformation
Yahweh - Elohim
Jeremiah - fearful revelation
Ezekiel - priest - early mystic
Second Isaiah - No god but Yahweh
Cyrus, King of persia - installed Marduk
Glory of Yahweh - by P
mitzvot - 613 commandments (from 10 commandments) -
Job - dares to question divinity - vision marvels of world
Greek - Alexander of Macedonia - intro of philosophy & rationalism
Some Greek observed part of Torah
Wisdom - creation of Yahweh
Philo - platonist - Jew
God - Essence, Powers and Energies
Romans & Jews - good relation
Pogram and Deportation of Jews
Essenes and Qumran Sect - believed temple corrupt - setup monanstry
Pharisees sect - cultivated sense of god's presence in smallest detail of life
two rival schools
Shammai the elder
Rabbi Hillel the elder
no temple needed
tannaim (set of scholars) compiled Misnah from Mosaic Law
amoraim (new set of scholar) compiled Talmud from Misnah
Jerusalem Talmud and Babylon Talmud
Shekinah - synonym of God - sense of God's presence wherever
ideals of Rabbis close to Second of the God religion
Ch3: A light to the gentiles
Jesus - faith healer - new Moses/Joshua -Messiah
Mark Gospel - year 70
Rabbi Gamaliel - grandson of Hillel - rejected Jesus
John the baptist - Essene - ascetic - teacher of Jesus
Jesus, Paul - Pharisee
Son of god
Divine power for Jesus
Paul called Jesus son of god
Bakthi - bodhisattva
Nagarjuna - void school
Hindu developed trinity
Paul letter - Jesus replaced Torah
John's gospel - preexisting Jesus
Acts of apostle - Jesus man
Romans saw Christianity heresy 100ce
Educated pagans turned to philosophy 200ce
Platonist - Plato the mystic
Justin of Caesarea - philosophers and prophets foretold Jesus
Gnostics - godhead - emanation - god - emanate - god in pairs (aeon) 30 numbers - divine world (pleroma) - primal fall
Marcion - Jewish god war - Jesus another god
Tertullian - good god similar to Greek god
Celsus - Accused christians narrow provincal god
Clement - Yahweh = Greek god - calm
Bishop of Lyons - man should imitate Jesus
Paul of samosata - Jesus simply a man
Origen - pupil of Clement
-Christian could climb chain to reach god
-kinship between god and soul
-self castration
Plotinus - exploration in inner psyche
-primal unity - One
-emanation -> mind and then soul
Montanus - divine avatar - matrydom
Orthodox - rejected Gnostic, Marcionites and Montanist - settled middle road
Constantine - Roman - legalized Christianity
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