The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (33 page)

Jethro (father-in-law of Moshe),
3.1
,
4.1

Jewish laws

dietary

lex talionis
(law of retaliation),
4.1

See also
Commandments
; Torah

Jews

Judeans known as,
6.1
,
6.2

See also
Israelites

Jezebel (queen of Israel)

Job,
2.1
,
6.1
,
7.1

Joel (prophet)

Jonathan (son of Saul),
5.1
,
5.2

Joseph (son of Yaakov/Israel), slavery and triumph in Egypt

Joshua,
5.1
,
5.2

Joshua (Book of),
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1

Josiah (king of Judah)

Judah, Kingdom of (southern area)

conquest by Babylon,
itr.1
,
6.1

northern Israel breaks away from

prophets warn

See also
Israel, United Kingdom of

Judges (Book of),
5.1
,
7.1

Judith (Book of)

Justice, Y
HWH
as God of,
4.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1

Ketuvim,
7.1
,
7.2

King List (Sumerian),
1.1
,
1.2

Kings (Book of),
5.1
,
6.1
,
7.1

Languages

Akkadian (Old Babylonian),
itr.1
,
1.1
,
1.2

Hebrew,
itr.1
,
3.1

metaphor as basis of all

Leviticus (Book of),
4.1
,
7.1

Lex talionis
(law of retaliation),
4.1

Literature, Hebrew

birth of

evolution of, in exile

See also
Bible

Lot (nephew of Avram),
2.1
,
2.2

imprisonment of

saved from Sodom’s destruction

Love and Death in the American Novel
(Fiedler),
1.1

Mahn-hu
(manna),
4.1

Mamre (modern Hebron), Avram’s settlement in

Man and Time
(Puech),
itr.1

Manasseh (king of Judah)

Manna, defined

Mathematics, Sumerian

Medicine, Sumerian

Men

as prostitutes,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3

relationships between, valued in

warrior societies,
1.1
,
1.2
,
5.1

Merab (daughter of Saul)

Mesopotamia

early communities in,
1.1
,
1.2

See also
Babylon
;
Sumer

Metallurgy

Metaphor

basis of all thought/language

See also
Correspondences, primitive religious

Micah (prophet)

Michal (wife of David; daughter of Saul),
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5

Midwives, refusal to murder newborn Israelites by

Miles, Jack,
God: A Biography
,
7.1

Mishna

Moab (Moav)

Moloch (Canaanite god)

Monotheism

combining moral and legal realms

development of,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1
,
6.1

Egyptian pharaoh decrees

See also
Hebrew God
;
Y
HWH

Moon

influence over primitive man

Sumerian worship of,
1.1
,
1.2

symbols for,
2.1
,
2.2

Moses.
See
Moshe (Moses)

Moshe (Moses)

birth of

character of, vs. Avraham

circumcision of,
3.1
,
4.1

death of

as Egyptian name

encounters Y
HWH
on Mount Sinai,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4

leads Israelites from Egypt

plagues and,
3.1
,
3.2

response to broken commandments

Myths

history vs.,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4

Sumerian,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
2.1

Nanna-Sin (Sumerian god),
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1

Naomi

Nathan (prophet),
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2

Nebuchadnezzar

Neviim,
7.1
,
7.2

Newman, John Henry

New Testament

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Ninkasi (Sumerian goddess)

Ninkilim (Sumerian goddess)

Ninsun (Sumerian goddess, mother of Gilgamesh),
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3

Ninurta (Sumerian god)

Noah

Sumerian antecedent to,
1.1
,
1.2

Obed (son of Ruth)

Odyssey
(Homer),
2.1

Old Testament.
See
Bible
;
Commandments
;
Torah
;
specific books

Oral tradition

Bible and,
itr.1
,
2.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

of nomads

Original sin, doctrine of

Palestine, term origin

Passover

Patriarchs

Joseph (son of Yaakov/Israel)

Yaakov/Jacob/Israel (son of Yitzhak),
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

See also
Avraham (formerly Avram)
;
Avram (later Avraham)
;
Moshe (Moses)
;
Yitzhak (son of Avraham)

Patronal gods, of Sumer,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

Persians

Pharaohs, of Egypt

Akhnaton

Avram and,
2.1
,
3.1

dynastic marriage arranged with Solomon

Joseph and,
3.1
,
3.2

Moshe and,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4

Rameses II,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1

Tutankhamon

unnamed who enslaves Israelites (Seti I),
3.1
,
3.2

See also
Egypt

Philistines

David as vassal to

as enemies of Israelites,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
5.7

Phoenicians

Pottery

Present moment, concept of,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Processive worldview, vs. cyclical worldview

Prophets

Amos,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

Elijah the Tishbite

Hosea

Isaiah of Judah,
6.1
,
7.1

Jeremiah

Joel

Micah

Nathan,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2

Samuel,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
6.1

Prostitutes

in
Epic of Gilgamesh
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3

in Sumerian rituals,
1.1
,
1.2

Psalms (Book of),
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2

See also
David (king of Israel), poetry of

Pua (midwife)

Puech, Henri-Charles,
Man and Time
,
itr.1

Ra (Egyptian god)

Rachel (wife of Yaakov/Israel)

Rameses II (Egyptian pharaoh),
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1

Reality.
See
Cyclical worldview

Rebecca/Rivka (wife of Yitzhak)

Rehoboam (son of Solomon)

Rivka/Rebecca (wife of Yitzhak)

Rosenzweig, Franz

Ruach
(wind, breath),
5.1
,
6.1

Rublev, Andrei

Ruth (Book of),
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2

Sabbath, innovation of

Sacrifice.
See
Human sacrifice

Samaria, capital of Kingdom of Israel,
6.1
,
6.2

Samuel (prophet),
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
6.1

Sappho

Sara (formerly Sarai, wife of Avraham)

death and burial of

pregnancy of,
2.1
,
2.2

renamed by God

See also
Sarai (later Sara, wife of Avram)

Sarai (later Sara, wife of Avram)

barrenness of,
2.1
,
2.2

in Egypt

migration to Canaan

See also
Sara (formerly Sarai, wife of Avraham)

Sarna, Nahum

Saul (king of Israelites)

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