1.02 MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS

Biblical or ancient name for the lands of modern Israel that lie between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea

Canaan

builds on the Torah by adding the stories and teachings of Jesus

Christian Bible

Holy Sepulchre is the location of Jesus' crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is location where the gospels of Matthew and Luke show where Jesus was born. Under the church

Christianity, Sacred Sites and Symbols

in Jewish and Christian tradition, the first ten laws revealed by God to Moses on Mount Sinai as part of the covenant between God and the Jewish people

Ten Commandments

Those of Jewish faith consider Israel the homeland promised to them by God and hold the Holy Land central to Jewish beliefs and practices; Christian, faith's prophets, including Jesus Christ, lived, taught, and died there.; For Muslims, Jerusalem is also honored as the "land of many prophets" and is recognized as the site of a miraculous journey by Muhammad.

The holy land

Moses and jesus

Abraham's two descendents

Isaac and Ishmael

Abraham's two sons

Isaac's descendant Moses led enslaved people in Egypt to freedom, escaping with the Jewish people in a journey known as the Exodus (40 years wandering in the deserts of the Sinai Peninsula before Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai)

1300 BCE

the movement of the Jewish people, or Israelites, led by Moses from ancient Egypt

Exodus

Moses and Jesus, are considered the founders of Judaism and Christianity respectively and muslims believe Muhammad founded Islam.

Faiths

Yahweh called on Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. All three monotheistic faiths hold that Isaac went on to father the Jewish race.

Isaac (Judaism)

honors both the Hebrew and the Christian Bible but considers the Qur'an to be the latest, and most accurate, revelation. ( literal word of God, or Allah, as revealed to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel; organized in 114 chapters called suras that record Muhammad's teachings in verse )

Islam

star and crescent, congregations are led by imams. holiest site in Islam, the Kaaba built by Abraham and his son Ishmael, Green Dome is where Muhammad and his followers once took refuge.

Islam, Sacred Sites and Symbols

the holy book is the Torah (comprised of the first five books of what Christians call the Old Testament) 39 books of the Hebrew Bible

Judaism

star of david ( 12 sides = 12 tribes) Congregations led by rabbi Old Jerusalem is home to the Temple Mount, mosque known as the Dome of the Rock sits where the temple once stood, the place where Muslims believe that Muhammad rose into heaven. Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron its over the place where Abraham is believed to have been buried.

Judaism, Sacred Sites and Symbols

persons who practice religion in a way that emphasizes the personal spiritual experience of the divine, generally outside the mainstream or common practice of the larger religious group

Mystics

second covenant, when Moses and his people accepted the laws of their god, to be the true start of Judaism

Second Covenant

groups within a larger religion with distinctive beliefs that set them apart

Sects

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all share common roots; Began in Southwest asia

Three major monotheistic religions

branches or subgroups of a religion with specific beliefs or practices that distinguish them from other branches

denominations

A man named Abraham started the family nearly 4,000 years ago in a land known then as Canaan.

Who started these three faiths?

Abraham made what is known as the first covenant, or agreement, with God (Moses renewed that covenant centuries later)

Yahweh (Hebrew)- Judaism

home to holy sites that are sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

modern city of Jerusalem