POLI 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Grand Sanhedrin, Sanhedrin, Religious Law

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Political Sc
• Course: POLI 320
• Professor: Maxwell Silverman

Document Summary

Lived in egypt, they enslaved this nation. Release from slavery and wondering in the desert. There received two things : the written torah (the 5 books of moses, the oral torah (god spoke to moses), the commentary on the oral tradition. Gemarah form the commentary = oral torah: both are considered to be divine. Temple= main institution of this religious society. Prophets, wholesale rejection of legalistic thinking, maccabean zealotry, etc. The romans rebellion and destruct the temple. This is where the oral tradition gets written down. There this push to bring the oral tradition onto paper. Mostly is a response of what is happening to the nation. In the religious tradition, the destruction of the temple is seen as an act of god to move these people from this temple cult tradition. To push them to be a legalistic society. The real move to writing the tradition.