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WORLD RELIGIONS CLASS 10  –  JUDAISM PART II   Write a paragraph of 100 – 150 words in response to each of the following four tasks   Task 1: The “Hebrew Bible” and the “Old Testament”   Watch the following video and answer the question that follows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALsluAKBZ-c   What is the crucial difference between a Jewish and Christian reading of the Hebrew Bible, especially the idea that God will raise up a “new Moses”, a new king from the line of David? (The Hebrew Bible calls this new king the “Messiah”, a term that translates into Greek as “Christ’)   Task 2: Supersessionism Read the short article below on “supersessionism” and then write a paragraph offering your thoughts on whether the Hebrew Bible should be regarded as divine revelation in its own right or whether it is only divine revelation when read in the full context of the Christian Bible (You may of course address this from any perspective ….Christian/ Muslim/ Jewish/ atheist/ agnostic…it is your argument that matters)   Supersessionism is the traditional Christian belief that Christianity is the fulfillment of Biblical Judaism, and therefore that Jews who deny that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah fall short of their calling as God’s Chosen people. Supersessionism, in its more radical form, maintains that the Jews are no longer considered to be God’s Chosen people in any sense. This understanding is generally termed “replacement theology.” The traditional form of supersessionism does not theorize a replacement; instead it argues that Israel has been superseded only in the sense that the Church has been entrusted with the fulfillment of the promises of which Jewish Israel is the trustee. This belief has served not only as the explanation for why believers in Christ should not become Jews, but is also the reason that Jews are not exempted by the Christian churches, from the call of the Gospel to believe in Jesus Christ for salvation from sin and from the penalties due to sin. In recent times, the doctrine of supersessionism has been blamed for mistreatment of the Jews in the past. Some liberal Protestant groups have therefore formally renounced supersessionism, affirming that Jews and other non-Christians have a valid way to find God within their own faith, which breaks from historic Protestant teaching. Dispensationalism affirms that salvation is only through faith in Christ, and that Jews fall short of obtaining the kingdom of the promised Messiah, unless they are converted to Christianity. However, in their view, a future mass conversion will result in the restoration of the nation Israel prior to the Millennium, apart from the church dispensation. This anticipation of a future role for the ethnic and geo-political nation of Israel in the plan of God, apart from the Church, is what is meant by some dispensationalists who style themselves as rejectors of “supersessionism” or “replacement theology”, and thus they are using the terms in a way that is distinctive to their expectation of future events. Source: https://www.theopedia.com/supersessionism   Task 3: How did Christianity emerge from Judaism? Describe the circumstances in which Christianity became a religion in its own right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG55ErfdaeY     Task 4:  Antisemitism (anti-Jewishness) and the Gospels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLkD4JmTbQk   Who killed Jesus and why this question matter in relation to the historical roots of antisemitism? (Bear in mind that the four gospel accounts of the death of Jesus which occurred around 30AD are written between 65AD and 100AD. By 80AD, the Christians had been expelled from the Jewish community for accepting non-Jews into their commuities and for their claims about Jesus. Embittered by their expulsion, the gospel writers present the Jewish people in a very negative light – as enthusiastically calling on the Roman governor, Pilate, to have Jesus crucified.)