The Religions of Abraham: Preparing Students for the 21st Century

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The Religions of Abraham Preparing Students for
the 21st Century

• What the students of Castleton State need to know
  for a safe future

sol.gittleman_at_tufts.edu October 21, 2009
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Which are the Religions of Abraham?
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What is the Islamic world?Where are the
Muslims?Where are the Arabs?
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Biblical pre-history (5770 years ago)Sacred to
whom? What do you know of the Hebrew Bible?

• In the Beginning (Genesis) The Generations of
  Adam
• From Abraham to Moses
• From Exodus to David/Solomon
• From David/Solomon to Jesus
• Minimalists, Maximalists, and Faith

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Abram/Abrahams journey, 2000 BCE the first Jew,
the first Christian, the first Muslim
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Iraq Today
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The Exodus and Mosesc.1250 BCE (biblical source)
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How much land did God promise?

• Joshua, 1 2-4 My servant Moses is dead. Now
  proceed to cross the Jordan, you and all this
  people, into the land that I am giving to them,
  to the Israelites. Every place that the sole of
  your foot will tread upon I have given to you, as
  I promised to Moses. From the wilderness, and the
  Lebanon as far as the great river.
• Euphratesto the great sea in the west shall
  be your territory.

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Kingdoms of Saul, David, Solomon,1013-930
BCE(still pre-history?)
Bible Doctrine for the Spiritual Life
Evangelical Christian website
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Assyrian Empire Conquers, 722 BCE (Bible and
other sources)
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Babylonian Conquest of Judah, 586 BCE (Bible and
other sources)
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Exiles return, oppressed, and hope for Gods
intervention

• C.500 BCE Jews return from Babylonian exile
  (Prophets)
• 331 BCE Alexander the Great occupies Jerusalem
• 168 BCE Jews revolt against Greeks
• C.150 BCE Book of Daniel written, first mention
  of Gods kingdom on earth and end of time
  (Eschatology) Rabbis canonize TORAH, the
  Hebrew Bible
• Begin commentaries TALMUD 613 commandments248
  Thou Shalt 365 Thou Shalt Not
• C. 150 BCE Community established at Qumran to
  wait for The Teacher of Righteousness (The Dead
  Sea Scrolls, discovered 1947)
• 63 BCE Roman armies occupy Jerusalem

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Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE)
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Pax Romana,The Roman Empire to 100 CE
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• From the Birth of Christianity to the Modern
  Middle East the Next 2000 Years

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We wait for the Teacher of Righteousness, we
wait for the Kingdom of God on earth. The Dead
Sea Scrolls
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The Jews Await Their Messiah

• Matthew 11 An account of the genealogy of Jesus
  the Messiah, the son of David, the son of
  Abraham.
• Matthew 117 So all the generations from Abraham
  to David are fourteen, from David to the
  deportation to Babylon fourteen, and from Babylon
  to the Messiah fourteen.

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Journeys of Paul From Jesus to Christ
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Rome and Constantinople
The Great Schism, 1054
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The Koran, English-Arabic
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Jewish and Christian Tradition in the Koran

• II,136 We believe in Allah and that which is
  revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto
  Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and
  the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus
  received, and that which the Prophets received
  from their Lord.
• III, 2-3 Allah, there is no God save him, the
  Alive, the Eternal. He hath revealed unto thee,
  Mohammed, the Scripture with truth, concerning
  that which was revealed before it, even as he
  revealed the Torah and the Gospel.

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The Sunni-Shiite Schism,680CE

• After Mohammeds death (632CE), who should lead
  Islam?
• The direct descendants of the Prophet? Ali, the
  Prophets cousin and son-in-law (Shia-Ali, The
  Partisans of Ali)
• Or any worthy leader, like Abu Bakr, a caliph
  (Sunni, The Followers of the Law)
• Ali killed, his son Hussein killed at Battle of
  Karbala, 680CE Sunni triumphs, 85 of Islam
• (Where are the 15 Shiites concentrated?)

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Green Sunni(85 of Islam)Blue Shiite(15 of
Islam)
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Christianity and Islam, 8th Century CE
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Muslim Spain A Golden Age (c.750-1492)
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The Alhambra in Granada
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Astronomy in Muslim Spain
Michael Grimsdale
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11th century Muslim medical instruments
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The Crusades, 1095-1291Pope Urban II Deus
vult.
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Constantinople falls, 1453 Islam again in
Europe Vienna, 1580 why and how?
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Europe after The Thirty Years War, 1648
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The 20th Century Preparing for the Millennium
and the expected Apocalypse

• Onward Christian Soldiers

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Everything starts in the BalkansSarajevo, in
Bosnia, June 28, 1914
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Well be home by ChristmasThe Great War
(World War I) 1914-1918
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WW I The beginning of air warfare
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Trench Warfare WW I
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New Technology World War I Tank
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The horror of World War I
Otto Dix
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World War I Gassed and Blind
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Winners at Versailles,1919Six Months that
changed the world
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Moderate Arabs at Versailles They fought against
Muslims (Turks) on the side of Christians
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After The Treaty of Versailles Oil and the
Garden of Eden
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France and Great Britain Divide the Garden of Eden
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Abraham 4000 Years Earlier Some Things Never
Change
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The Balfour Declaration
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Adolf Hitler The anti-Christ?
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September 1, 1939 WW II Has Judgment Day
Arrived?
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Josef Stalin The Soviet Dictator Anti-Christ?
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Pius XII, Pope(1939-1958)
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German Priests give the Nazi salute
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FDR addresses Congress, December 8, 1941so
help us God
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Apocalypse Nagasaki, 1945
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Apocalypse Now? 50 million dead
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May 14, 1948The stage is set for the final
struggle
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The future?
Is war in the Name of God inevitable?
Is war without God inevitable?
What does change?
Technology and the capacity for mass death with
or without faith?
Can we change the course of history?
The century for your children and grandchildren?