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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Replying to @BaruchKogan @bronzeagemantis and
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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Replying to @BaruchKogan @bronzeagemantis and
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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Replying to @BaruchKogan @bronzeagemantis and
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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Replying to @BaruchKogan @bronzeagemantis and
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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @bronzeagemantis and
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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Replying to @BaruchKogan @bronzeagemantis and
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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @bronzeagemantis and
Thanks you for your phenomenal linguistic and ethnographic insights, professor. The depth and logic of your reasoning and expertise, the sources you quote, all leave me with nothing productive to contribute, so I think I'll leave this discussion now.
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have fun with your pilpul, may you be rewarded in this life for it
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @bronzeagemantis and
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their due reward from Me, saith the LORD
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calm down. For all your huffing and puffing the only evidence you've given are some ambiguous passages from Josephus that don't say anything close to what you claim they do
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