Christians do not reject the truth of the Torah; Talmudists reject both the religious practices of Judea and the Judean priesthood’s interpretation of Judea’s law code
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With which of my sources do you disagree? Josephus or the Christian scripture?
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you seem to suffer brain damage if you think the incident in Josephus you cite licenses the conclusions you draw
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Not brain damage-context. When you've read Josephus and learned what the Talmud says, then you can have an informed conversation on the subject.
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For starters, you can look in the Antiquities and see what he had to say about the Pharisees.
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And nothing about it provides any “context” for what you said. Eg the return from exile makes no mention of Pharisees - it was the priests and the levites who were brought together when the Temple religion resumed
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hey they threw the etrog in Josephus therefore the talmud was revealed on sinai with the torah who can argue with this mastery of Biblical interpretation
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What is the significance of an etrog? According to the Oral Torah (given on Sinai,) it is required to fulfill a commandment in the Written Torah (also given on Sinai) in Leviticus 23:40. It is nowhere specifically identified in the Written Torah.
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What is the significance of a Sadducee? It is someone who argues that the Oral Torah was not given at Sinai, but made up later (as you do.) What is the significance of crowds of Jews at the Temple with etrogim on Sukkot? That most Jews believed in the Oral Torah.
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