Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies Route B Specification - Judaism

Component 3: Study of a World Faith - Judaism

Beliefs and Teachings 

The Nature of God

• Issues of God as: One, Creator: Genesis 1 3-5; 1 26-28, The Shema
• Law-Giver and Judge: Exodus 20:1-15
• The nature and significance of shekhinah (the divine presence)

Messiah (Mashiach)

• Different views within Orthodox and Reform Judaism about the nature and role of the Mashiach (Messiah); special person who brings an age of peace, ourselves, his arrival as signalling the end of the world, praying for his coming, concerned more with living life according to the mitzvot 

Covenant

• The meaning and significance of the Abrahamic Covenant: Genesis 12:1-3, 17:6-8, 17:11-14 including the importance of…