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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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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He specifically didn’t say “handed down by Moses” but handed down by former generations ie, possibly no earlier than the first appearance of the pharisees (and the *specific elements* of these pretended traditions were undoubtedly being reinvented on the fly every few decades)
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Oh, undoubtedly. The other alternative is that you are a dishonest ignoramus, who projects that dishonesty and ignorance on others. "Of course the Jews would be ignorant of their own history and traditions, and re-invent them every few decades! Isn't everyone?" I'm done, thx.
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i think you know a lot about the traditions of the jews and v little about the traditions of the judeans
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You're an ignoramus. Nehemia was not a Cohen or Levi. Ezra was a Cohen, but is always referred to as Ezra the Scribe-a scribe is a synonym for a rabbi or a Pharisee, and Jesus uses it as such. At the time, the vast majority of Jews also saw the Oral Torah as authoritative.
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Far from accepting unbroken pharosaical authority from Sinai to his own time, he attributes their authority to collaborating with occupiers and smooth-talking women
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