The central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology. Talmud: Schene luchoth haberuth, p 250b "Although the non-Jew has the same body structure as the Jew, they compare with the Jew as a monkey to a human." Supremacism anyone?
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This is false -- the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology is the Torah, the Bible The Talmud is a record of successive attempts at interpretation of that text, which frequently argue with and contradict each other
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cleeeave and
The Talmud is several thousand years' worth of printed-out forum threads about the Tanakh.
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Replying to @iridienne @Cleeeave and
The fact that Christian antisemites in the American fundamentalist tradition specifically say that the Talmud is the "Jewish Bible" is an enormous absurdity and points to the deep intellectual impoverishment of their own tradition
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
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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Replying to @perdricof @iridienne and
Evangelicals don't even actually read the Bible They're, and I cannot emphasize this enough as a former evangelical, so fucking stupid
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
The Christian Bible as a whole isn't *that* long a book if it's your one sacred text that you're supposed to spend your whole life studying and basing your sense of morality and ethics on But for years I was like the only person I knew who could say I'd "read the whole Bible"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Forcing you to make it through the whole Bible in one year was this challenge my church's Bible study set for everyone that most people frankly didn't even bother to pretend not to cheat through Reading an individual book of the Bible *as a book*, straight through, is haaaard
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
I have to admit I rarely attend torah services, but when I realized that christians don't have the equivalent- reading the entirety of the original (even in translation) text of their scriptures in church service - I was gobsmacked. (Maybe some do? idk.)
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Replying to @TiaRachel @perdricof and
I mean a lot of brainy/nerdy evangelical Christians do hold this up as an ideal and later in life I met some very devoted Christians who did in fact make a point of reading the full text of the Bible every year (and said Jewish practice inspired them to do so)
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But yeah most churches don't do this You read whatever passage the pastor decided he wanted to talk about today, which means that some passages are extremely well-trodden ground and some are never even touched
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TiaRachel and
My church's pastor's sermons are very boring but I have to give him some respect for the fact that he will just pick a book of the bible and work his way through it over the course of months, trying to do a sermon on every single passage no matter how mundane.
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Replying to @PikeBot @arthur_affect and
I mean, I have no desire to ever sit through these series of sermons but I gotta give proper for thoroughness.
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