You haven't even actually read the book you name-drop in this tweet you dumb Nazi fuckface
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kittensnotkids
Wrong. Talmud sanhedrin, baba mezia, 114a-114b. "Only jews are human. Gentiles are animals." Babylonian talmud. Funk & wagnall's jewish encyclopaedia, 1907, gentile, page 617. "Even the best of the gentiles should be killed."
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Can you explain what the talmud is?
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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
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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Replying to @gedawei @iridienne and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @gedawei and
In any case, sure, in the broad sense of what the word "bible" means you could call the Talmud part of the "Jewish Bible" But you have to understand this is very different than what evangelicals mean when they talk about "the Bible"
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Like how, say, a lot of old-school students of psychology consider Freud's writings their "bible" while also thinking that a lot of the specifics of what Freud thought are outdated or just plain wrong (This is a comparison Chaim Potok directly makes in The Chosen)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @gedawei and
I love how the dude thought he could win the argument by dropping a few out-of-context Talmud quotes. Fucked around and found out.
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