AQA A-Level Religious Studies 7062
Arguments for the Existence of God
Evil and Suffering
Religious Language
Self and Life After Death
Religious Experience
Ethical Theories
Issues of Human Life and Death
Meta Ethics
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Conscience
Bentham and Kant
Issues of Animal Life and Death
Buddhism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityBuddhism
Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion, Gender and SexualityBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and ScienceBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and SecularisationBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and Religious PluralismBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with PhilosophyBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with EthicsBuddhism
Buddhism: God and Ultimate RealityBuddhism
Buddhism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeBuddhism
Buddhism: Expression of Religious IdentityBuddhism
Christianity: God and Ultimate RealityChristianity
Christianity: Self, Death and the AfterlifeChristianity
Christianity: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesChristianity
Christianity: Religion, Gender and SexualityChristianity
Christianity: Religion and ScienceChristianity
Christianity: Religion and SecularisationChristianity
Christianity: Religion and Religious PluralismChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with PhilosophyChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with EthicsChristianity
Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityChristianity
Christianity: Expression of Religious IdentityChristianity
Hinduism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityHinduism
Hinduism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesHinduism
Hinduism: Religion, Gender and SexualityHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and ScienceHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and SecularisationHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and Religious PluralismHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with PhilosophyHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with EthicsHinduism
Hinduism: God and Ultimate RealityHinduism
Hinduism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeHinduism
Hinduism: Expression of Religious IdentityHinduism
Islam: God and Ultimate RealityIslam
Islam: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesIslam
Islam: Religion, Gender and SexualityIslam
Islam: Religion and ScienceIslam
Islam: Religion and SecularisationIslam
Islam: Religion and Religious PluralismIslam
Islam: Dialogue with PhilosophyIslam
Islam: Dialogue with EthicsIslam
Islam: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityIslam
Islam: Self, Death and the AfterlifeIslam
Islam: Expression of Religious IdentityIslam
Judaism: God and Ultimate RealityJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with PhilosophyJudaism
Judaism: Religion and ScienceJudaism
Judaism: Religion and SecularisationJudaism
Judaism: Religion and Religious PluralismJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with EthicsJudaism
Judaism: Religion, Gender and SexualityJudaism
Judaism: Expression of Religious IdentityJudaism
Judaism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityJudaism
Judaism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeJudaism
Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesJudaism
Judaism: Sources of Wisdom and Authority
The Tenakh in Worship and as Authority
- 4 things to know
- Component 2
Overview
Recall questions on reading the Torah, sidrah, haftarah and Simchat Torah, the Shema and mezuzah, and how Orthodox and Reform Jews treat the Tenakh's authority, its translation and conflicts with science.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What is celebrated at Simchat Torah?
Distinguish the Written Torah from the Oral Torah.
Define sidrah and haftarah, and say when the Shema is recited.
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
Describe how the Torah is read in synagogue worship.
Model answer
A handwritten scroll is taken from the ark and chanted aloud in Hebrew, the weekly portion being read so that the whole Torah is completed over the year.
- 2
Define the term sidrah.
Model answer
The weekly portion of the Torah appointed to be read in synagogue.
- 3
Explain what the haftarah is.
Model answer
A passage from the Nevi'im read after the Torah portion on Shabbat and festivals.
- 4
Why is the parchment of a Torah scroll never touched during the reading?
Model answer
Its holiness is marked by following the text with a pointer, the yad, so that no hand touches the writing.
- 5
What is celebrated at Simchat Torah?
Model answer
The completion of the annual cycle of Torah readings and its immediate restart from the beginning of Genesis.
- 6
How is the Tenakh used as a source of authority outside worship?
Model answer
It is studied at home and in the beit midrash, cited in rabbinic rulings, and used to settle questions of law, ethics and belief.
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