Summary of Max I. Dimont's Jews, God, and History

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#1 The first signs of civilization, with all the classical symptoms, appeared around 4500 B. C. In the third millennium B. , a great Semitic king named Sargon I conquered the Sumerians and formed the Sumerian-Akkadian kingdom.

#2 The first people to be called Hebrews were the descendants of Terah, who emigrated from the cosmopolitan city of Ur in Babylonia to the land of Haran in southern Turkey. God promised Abraham that He would make him a separate and distinct people if he followed the commandments of God.

#3 The idea of a covenant between the Jews and God is still alive today. It was Abraham who projected this experience onto an imaginary Jehovah, but the fact remains that after four thousand years, the idea of a covenant between the Jews and God is still alive.

#4 The Jews, after they had been exiled from Egypt, were forced to live as nomads. They were given the Ten Commandments by Moses, and they began to behave differently than the surrounding pagans. They developed a ritual that was different from that of the surrounding pagans.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669388470

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#1

The first signs of civilization, with all the classical symptoms, appeared around 4500 B. C. In the third millennium B. , a great Semitic king named Sargon I conquered the Sumerians and formed the Sumerian-Akkadian kingdom.

#2

The first people to be called Hebrews were the descendants of Terah, who emigrated from the cosmopolitan city of Ur in Babylonia to the land of Haran in southern Turkey. God promised Abraham that He would make him a separate and distinct people if he followed the commandments of God.

#3

The idea of a covenant between the Jews and God is still alive today. It was Abraham who projected this experience onto an imaginary Jehovah, but the fact remains that after four thousand years, the idea of a covenant between the Jews and God is still alive.

#4

The Jews, after they had been exiled from Egypt, were forced to live as nomads. They were given the Ten Commandments by Moses, and they began to behave differently than the surrounding pagans. They developed a ritual that was different from that of the surrounding pagans.

#5

The Bible tells the story of how the Israelites, led by Joseph, were enslaved in Egypt by the Egyptians. The Jews in Egypt were slaves for 400 years until Moses led them out of Egypt and into the land of Canaan.

#6

The Egyptians were a very friendly and hospitable people, but they were also enslaved by the Egyptians after they were conquered by an unidentified Asiatic tribe known as the Hyksos.

#7

The life of Moses is shrouded in legend. The Book of Exodus states that the Pharaoh who knew not Joseph gave orders that all Jewish male children were to be killed at birth to prevent the Jews from multiplying too rapidly, though logic might lead us to believe that he would have welcomed such fecundity.

#8

The life of Moses raises many perplexing questions. He was raised as an Egyptian prince, but he learned Hebrew and identified himself with the Jewish slaves instead of with Egyptian royalty. He made the same covenant with the Jews that God made with Abraham.

#9

The idea that Moses was a non-Jew who welded the Israelites of Egypt and the Hebrews of Canaan into one people is presented by Freud in his book Moses and Monotheism. He says that Moses was either an Egyptian prince or a priest who gave the Jews their monotheistic religion.

#10

The Jewish people were slaves in Egypt, and Moses decided to choose them as the people he would lead out of Egypt. As the price of their freedom, the Jews accepted Moses as their leader and his religion as their own.

#11

The final fusion of the Five Books of Moses, called the Pentateuch, occurred around 450 B. C. However, it was not until eight to sixteen hundred years after some of the events narrated in them took place that the Pentateuch was written.

#12

The giving of the Law, which was the central point of the Moses story, was the act of bringing forth a new nation. The Mosaic Code was a bold leap into the future, and it eclipsed previously known laws with its all-encompassing humanism and passion for justice.

#13

The Mosaic Code laid down the first principles for a separation of church and state, a concept not encountered again in world history until three thousand years later during the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century.

#14

The Jewish religion, which was very against images of God, had a profound influence on the Jewish character. The Second Commandment, which prohibited the making of images of God, had a profound influence on the Jewish character.

#15

The Second Commandment had a negative effect