CLA 2382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ten Lost Tribes, Antiquities Of The Jews, Pharisees
15 Apr 2015
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Churches arrive late in the 1st century, depended on distinctness of sect from rest of. Jews, nero was able to single out christians from others jews by the 60s, canonic gospels come to exist around the time of the maccabean revolt. What results is interesting mix of remaining israelites and assyrians who mingle their religions, perversion to worship of the hebrew god, different cannons then developed for. Maccabean initiative of forced conversions to judaism, by 1st century ce a strong. Gentile presence like greeks who even under the hasmoneans were viewed as unwelcome despite interest in conversion, after the romans take over with their greco- Romanizing push this tension is no longer an issue. Later sources will talk about jewish sects as if they are numerous, the most authoritative source on 1st century judaism is historian josephus, 3 works in particular: jewish. Mishnah as recording of written traditions of oral law previously not codified.
