but regardless, the talmud did not exist at the time so no one followed a religion based on the talmud until several centuries after Jesus we should call the ppl who lived in Judea judeans to avoid conflating them with the Talmudists (=jews)
Are you referring to my analogy or this tweet you replied to? I can’t imagine the subteties of the Aramaic change the basic relationship b/w the two religions. Do I need classical Hebrew to judge whether or not Samaritans participated in the Temple cult?
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let’s settle basics first. do i need to read classical hebrew to have informed view on whether samaritans were part of the Temple religion? reading is good but not all questions call for pilpul
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Returning to the original point, to have an informed opinion on the Talmud and whether it is an authentic representation of mainstream Judaism as practiced in Jesus' days, you need to study the Talmud, Mishna and contemporary sources like Josephus.
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So, when you e.g. read Jesus complaining about the Pharisees' enlargement of their phylacteries and fringes, you can understand what he is talking about, where these phylacteries and fringes come from, and what he's NOT complaining about.
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Or when you read descriptions in Josephus of Jews pelting Alexander Jannaeus, a Sadducee king with, etrogs, you can grasp the significance (etrogs, like phylacteries, are exclusively a Talmudic thing-you won't find them mentioned explicitly in the Torah.)
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Sadducees, of course, were defined by saying exactly what the Christians today say (and the opposite of what Jesus said): that the rabbis were just making things up and that their interpretation of the Torah was not the real deal. By pelting him with etrogs, the people disagreed.
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Bottom line: the vast majority of Jews in Jesus' day practiced Torah in the way taught by the rabbis, saw the rabbis as custodians of unbroken tradition from Moses and Mt. Sinai (as did Jesus) , and this is the same Judaism codified in the Talmud and practiced today.
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that’s absolutely false
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