RELS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bar Kokhba Revolt, Palestinian Rabbis, Simon Bar Kokhba
2 Dec 2017
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Scripture and interpretation: the written and the oral torah; the talmud. The way of worship: prayers and the commandments of love; the synagogue. Judaism if the rabbi could recite all of the torah while standing on one foot: hillel reported told him what is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour; that is the entire torah. Palestine, and in babylonia, which was now ruled by the parthians: an arrangement was forged between palestinian jews and the romans, where the. Jews were granted the same treatment as other minorities of the empire, with the extra privilege of exemption from pagan cultic observances: roman leaders recognized the jewish patriarch, a descendant of rabbi. Intellectual activity flourished as a result of the efforts of two third- century rabbis named samuel and rav: samuel was a wealthy babylonian scholar on good terms with the.
