Most of the texts referring to it either refer to a giant trash heap outside Jerusalem (that's the "cast into hell" bits, it's saying God will throw you in the trash) or are actually "Hades"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @bazzalisk and
The version of Gehenna Jesus describes in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus seems fairly developed, though, and unlikely to have been something he made up on the spot
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Probably one of the many now-heterodox Jewish traditions developed from this time period that were lost after the razing of the Temple
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Christianity is basically one branch of Judaism from this time period, mutating into a form that was no longer specifically Jewish and could survive as a proselytizing religion And rabbinical Judaism a branch that went the other direction
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
Yeah although I've seen strong objections from my Jewish friends to categorizing Christianity as acrually meaningfully Jewish today. Not my lane though (I'd like to convert to Judaism, but even then it's not quite the same)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
yeah, there was definitely a fork at which time Christianity ceased to be a Jewish thing (personally I blame Paul but I'm not an expert on the early church).
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Replying to @EmilyUnbound @BootlegGirl and
I think we can all blame Paul. That's really when the idea of Christianity came to be. Jesus was all about "Guess what? Judaism is like half-right and I am the prophecy."
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Replying to @benGSchout @EmilyUnbound and
Paul is responsible for several of the New Testament passages that went on to be foundational for Christian antisemitism and many have argued he was an early example of the controversial idea of the "self-hating Jew"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @benGSchout and
He certainly has an interesting background and apparently a lot of emotional baggage He's a Roman citizen at the same time as being a rabbi, something a lot of Jewish people at the time would've found contradictory
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Replying to @arthur_affect @benGSchout and
He gets almost violently angry and defensive when people ask why he's not married like Peter and the other apostles are (very much a normative thing in Judaism of the time) And lays out this whole thing about how being celibate is actually superior
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One theory that floats around is that he was mutilated by a botched circumcision (the vaguely alluded to "thorn in the flesh" that tormented him) Hence his actual rage at being told Gentile converts were being instructed to get circumcised
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Replying to @arthur_affect @benGSchout and
Openly referring to circumcision as "mutilation" and drawing a line in the sand that it was absolutely not required under the New Covenant
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