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Judaism

Second Temple something: Judaism or Judaisms?

August 5, 2009

I’ve taken this question out of the comments on this post in the hope that others will join in. I confess to being in two minds about it. I have used, and in some contexts will no doubt use again, the plural “Judaisms” myself when looking at the diversity of practice and belief in the [...]

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Christianity: Judaism’s elder brother

August 4, 2009

No, it’s not my idea. But I found this to be a very thought provoking quotation from Norman Solomon’s Judaism: A Very Short Introduction.

Strange as it may seem, the Talmud and other founding texts of rabbinic Judaism were actually written later than the Gospels, which were the founding texts of Christianity. When the Pope recently [...]

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Is the Hebrew Bible Not-the-Old-Testament?

July 3, 2009

John Anderson has a post on one of those perennial topics: what to call the collection of Scriptures that are common to both Judaism and Christianity? In the comments on that post Doug Mangum draws attention to a post of his on the topic from 18 months ago. Those who used to read my past [...]

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