Subject+Specific+Terminology

=Subject Specific Terminology= = Topic: The Nature of Religion =

**Dreaming;**
A complex concept of fundamental importance to the aboriginal culture, embracing the creative era long past (when anscestrial beings roamed and instituted aboriginal society) as well as the present and the future inextricable connection

sacred;
====devoted to a deity or some other religious purpose, e.g a church. can also be refered to as consecrated. metamorphosis: when one object is transformed to create another. an example of metamorphosis is in the Aboriginal dreaming story when a young boy threw a skin of a kangaroo down upon the ground. this skin then transformed into lake Eyre. imprinting: when something leaves an imprint upon something. during the Aboriginal dreaming, the ancestors shaped and formed the land by moving across it. this is imprinting the land. externalization: this is when someone leaves an item out of their body on the earth. this is shown in the Aboriginal dreaming in the story of the waritah. the flower was formed by the ancestor placing her own heart on in the earth.====

=**Subject Specific Terminology **= =Topic: Judaism= = = **Semitic;

Jewish; the religion of the hebrew people. originated from the covenant god made with abraham.

Judaism; The montheistic religion of the Jews/Hebrews.

covenant; A covenant is an agreement between man and man, In most cases in our topic it is between God and Man.

Decalogue; The ten commandments.

mitzvot; The 613 commandments of Judaism percieved like the bible.

Patriarch; A person regarded as a founder of... which continues throughout a family line.

Torah; The laws of Judaism.

Israel; Is the land given to the Hebrews in thecovenant between God and Abraham. It is also the name given to the third patriarch of Judaism Jacob.

Exodus; a section iin the old testament containing information about moses, his covenant with god, and leading the hebrews out of slavery. this is also telling us about the 10 comandments god gave to moses upon mount sinai

revelation; the act of revealing something. in a religious view god is revealing himself to his people.

Conservative; a person that is traditional in the style of which they follow there religion.

Orthodox;

Progressive;

TANACH;The Jewish Bible.

Nevi’im;

Ketuvim;

Talmud;

Halachah;

Tikkun Olam;

observance;

Adhereant; T o be a follower of, to follow. **