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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Replying to @BaruchKogan @QuasLacrimas and
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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Replying to @BaruchKogan @QuasLacrimas and
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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AltRabbi and
With which of my sources do you disagree? Josephus or the Christian scripture?
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Replying to @BaruchKogan @AltRabbi and
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 @AltRabbi and
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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...i’m an ignoramus? i’m beginning to think you haven’t read josephus, just glanced at jpg’s your equally-illiterate rabbi sent you
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