you seem to suffer brain damage if you think the incident in Josephus you cite licenses the conclusions you draw
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AltRabbi and
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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Replying to @BaruchKogan @QuasLacrimas and
For starters, you can look in the Antiquities and see what he had to say about the Pharisees.
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Replying to @BaruchKogan @AltRabbi and
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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @BaruchKogan and
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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Replying to @bronzeagemantis @QuasLacrimas and
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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you need a hell of a lot more than this to establish what you're claiming
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I'm claiming that the commandments in the Talmud, the codification of the Oral Law, were practiced by the majority of the Jews always. Josephus says as much, and mentions one such commandment (etrogs.) Jesus says as much, and mentions another ("phylacteries', i.e., tefillin.)
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one ambiguous quote from Josephus isn't enough. I'll give you your lemons...that doesn't establish 1% of what you're claiming
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Not one quote from Josephus, but two, and not lemons, but etrogs. Again, here's Josephus on the rabbis/Pharisees-he specifically says that the Pharisees had the support of the masses (because those masses had kept the same Oral Torah from tradition.)pic.twitter.com/A5CWR1G2YD
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elsewhere he says they gained that following from credulous women and from collaborating with macedonian occupiers in a greek political history describing one faction as having mass support means they were demagogues and could whip up mobs, not that Moses agrees w them
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