What relationship did the Jews have with God?

Answer 1

God is One

God created the Universe

God is present everywhere

God is invisible, yet all-powerful and omniscient

God holds us responsible for our behavior

God gave the Torah

Answer 2

The biblical answer is that the Israelites were the conquerors of the Canaanites. The relationship between the Israelites and the surviving Canaanites must have been one of bitter hatred.

However, scholars say that there never was a military conquest of Canaan. They say that the Hebrew language was very close to that of the Canaanites and that there was a shared culture. In the scholarly view, the Israelites were actually Canaanites who migrated from the cities along the coast, into the mountainous interior, where they eventually formed their own state. These settlers may also have been joined by itinerant nomads, such as the Habiru. On this view, there probably was a friendly relationship at first, although the ninth-century BCE expansionism of Israel would represent a different relationship.

• Answer:

Conquerors and the vanquished. The Canaanites were impressed (Joshua 9:3-10, and 6:27) by God's assistance to the Israelites, and (except for an incident or two) did not harass the Israelites after the time of Joshua.

How accurate is the Hebrew record?

"Although critics contended that the Hebrew Bible is untrustworthy, time and time again, the archaeological record supports places, times, and events mentioned in Scripture." (Professor John Arthur Thompson, The Bible and Archaeology). The personal names Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are names of the time and area mentioned in the Bible (ibid).

"One city after another, one civilization after another, one culture after another, who were known only from the Bible, have been restored to their place in ancient history through archaeology" (Prof. Gleason Archer, A Survey of Old Testament Introduction).

No parchment, scroll, or inscription has ever been found that would support the Bible-critics' JEPD (different sources) hypothesis, which remains a set of mere postulates. And those ancient writers who mention, describe, summarize or translate the Torah (Josephus, Samaritans, Targum, Septuagint etc.), describe it in its complete form.

Archaeological finds, such as the Ugarit documents and those of Nuzu, Mari, Susa, Ebla, and Tel el-Amarna, have repeatedly caused the critics to retract their claims. The entire social milieu portrayed in the Torah, once criticized as anachronistic, has been shown to be accurate, including customs of marriage, adoption, contracts, inheritance, purchases, utensils, modes of travel, people's names and titles, etc. Professor Gleason Archer states: "In case after case where inaccuracy was alleged as proof of late and spurious authorship of the biblical documents, the Hebrew record has been vindicated by the results of excavations, and the condemnatory judgment of the Documentary theorists have been proved to be without foundation."

Answer 3

god was the one who gave mose the ability to be his translater between himself and the people of isreal due to the fact they prayed to him asking to be release from pharohs kingdom, but they felt they needed someone in flesh to recieve these answers from instead of god himself. So all and all moses was able to talk with god and tell him what the people of isreal needed and or wanted. Moses was kind of the mediator between god and the people of isreal.

Answer 4

The Israelites were monotheistic, they prayed to god to save them from their enemies. They believed in an all knowing all powerful God who was present everywhere.

Answer 5

nothing

Answer 6

Judaism is defined by a covenant between the Jewish people and God. Jewish tradition holds that this covenant was made at Mount Sinai, and that the Torah is the document that defines the terms of the covenant. The tradition identifies 613 mitzvot, commandments, in the Torah, and that Jews are obligated by these commandments as their part of the covenant.