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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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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What is the significance of these crowds of Jews pelting a Sadducee king with their etrogim? You need me to spell it out for you, or not?
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What does Josephus specifically say about the question of Pharisees, Sadducees, and whether the Oral Torah is from Sinai?pic.twitter.com/UIlx6IMgEu
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