midterm!

Question 1

logos

Answer 1

reason, science, universal truths

Question 2

mythos

Answer 2

tries to explain our truths, concerned with meaning and context,

Question 3

academic study

Answer 3

Aims to compare and analyze
attempt to understand
Critical thinking; asking questions

Question 4

confesssional study

Answer 4

Aims to deepen faith
comes from a particular theological point of view
People understand themselves through stories

Question 5

east vs. west ted talk

Answer 5

Alexander the Great grew up with stories of greatness/ heroship/ make the most of life; thought Gymnosophist was wasting his life doing nothing; linear view of life
Gymnosophist sat and pondered wondering why Alexander was wasting his life doing the most; cyclical version of life, nothing is forever, everything comes and goes

Question 6

androcentrism

Answer 6

male centric world view; focus on the male as being normative; religious texts are androcentric

Question 7

axial age

Answer 7

700-200 BCE

Huge growth spurt in organization of culture

Question 8

tikkan olam/ b’tzetem elohim

Answer 8

repairing the world, focusing on equality of all

Question 9

feminist reformers

Answer 9

theologians who transform the religious tradition from within

Question 10

feminist revolutionaries

Answer 10

theologians who seek to develop a new nontraditional form of religion beyond the patriarchy

Question 11

three central claims of feminist scholarship

Answer 11

1. all theological think derives from human experience but whose experiences are being taken into accoutn? men.
2. women’s account must be taken into account in order to create a viable religious tradition
3. all feminist theologians take as our birthright the ability to “name reality” and describe our experience as a part of the human experience

Question 12

genesis I vs. genesis II

Answer 12

genesis I had men and woman created at the same time but genesis II had woman created from man

Question 13

the qu’ran creation story

Answer 13

creation of woman and man at the same time in pairs and did not blame women for seduciton

Question 14

rita gross steps of empathy

Answer 14

1. bracket your world view

2. put yourself in another’s shoes

Question 15

fundamentalism

Answer 15

view world in cosmic war of good and evil; trying to save the world of evil secular forces

Question 16

mitzvah

Answer 16

a rabbi can overturn the torah based on his own morals

Question 17

suzannah heschel

Answer 17

judiasm story of her father dying and not being allowed to participate in kaddish (the mourning prayer only preformed by the sons)

Question 18

judith plaskow finds the text of Exodus 19:15 distirubing (and moses said to the people, be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman)

Answer 18

implies that women are not the people

Question 19

lubavitch jewish women do not feel secondary or deprived

Answer 19

because they see men and women as having distinct and separate roles that are equally important

Question 20

emily korzenik says nuturing is good prep for the rabbi. she nutures by

Answer 20

cooking for people

Question 21

nancy hausman says she remembers men being negative about the presence of women students prepping to cantors

Answer 21

because they thought that since women get paid less it would make the profession pink collar and everyone would get paid less and just competition in general

Question 22

dr. abramson noted that there are positive commandments defined by time in judiasm that only men preform. women are excluded because

Answer 22

they are supposed to take care of issues at home during this time (child care, cooking, cleaning)

Question 23

agadah

Answer 23

interpreting the text where it is silent