"This isn't time for superficial thought-stopping garbage like "Jews do not cause anti-Semites." " No, i think it's exactly time for historically informed rational thought, C James. Saying "it's not time to think" is a hilariously foolish rhetorical strategy.
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That these are the dumbass kind of Christians who've taken sola scriptura to the point that any book you read regularly at all must be the equivalent of the Bible, because the Bible is the only book they read regularly and reading any other book would be replacing it
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(Which... isn't even actually true of them, since they, like everyone else, need help to interpret the Bible in a modern context But their "Talmud" is all garbage books written by end-times hucksters like Hal Lindsey in the 1980s)
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as an aside, it's interesting to watch the local antisemite approach the talmud the way that evangelicals approach their bible namely, by pulling random badly-translated quotes out of context and then pondering "their inner meaning" or whatever
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the idea that you can understand a text by meditating on a single sentence at a time is approximately as coherent as trying to discern the meaning of a word by meditating on one letter at a time
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I’m enjoying your discussion Arthur. But I don’t think the notion that the Talmud is part of the “Jewish Bible” is that absurd. According to orthodox Jewish belief, both the written law and the “oral law” (i.e., Talmud) were given to Moses on Mount Sinai!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_Torah
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My understanding is that even ultra-Orthodox rabbis would say that the texts we call the Talmud *contain* the Oral Torah but are not themselves identical with the Oral Torah, since they clearly contain speculation, arguments, contradictions, etc. about said Oral Torah
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