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rabbinic Judaism |
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rabbinic JudaismPrincipal form of Judaism that developed after the fall of the Second Temple of Jerusalem (AD 70). It originated in the teachings of the Pharisees, who emphasized the need for critical interpretation of the Torah. Rabbinic Judaism is centered on study of the Talmud and debate about the legal and theological issues it raises. Its mode of worship and life discipline continue to be practiced by Jews worldwide. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In fact, the ongoing rejection of the gospel by rabbinical Judaism is arguably a gift to be received by Christians as a condition of possibility for the gospel's existence in the light of centuries of violent efforts to coerce, bludgeon, and manipulate the world's peoples into accepting what passed for the gospel. He doesn't take his reader beyond the destruction of the Second Temple or into the subsequent development of rabbinical Judaism. We can see it in the writings of two Dutch Jews of Portuguese extraction in the third quarter of the seventeenth century--Uriel de Costa, who condemned rabbinical Judaism and was excommunicated by the Jewish community of Amsterdam, and Baruch Spinoza, who turned away from the whole theistic tradition toward a new kind of scientific naturalism and universalism and was also excommunicated from the Jewish community. |
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