RLGA02H3 Lecture Notes - Satan, Unclean Animal, Mishneh Torah
Document Summary
Temple"s destroyed in 70 ce, a major place for centralizing for judaism disappears. Northern kingdom is run over and the 10 tribes from it are dispersed and we don"t know what happened to them. It could have been a similar situation in the south. So in rabbinical judaism there are things that can no longer be practiced than rather a way to substitute new practices to substitutes for the old. Not only is judaism is struggling to negotiate its identity but so were christians. Midrash: activity of interpretation of revealed or sacred scriptures. Read the torah: read the 5 books of moses. Oral torah: recorded and memorized material/oral text/taught to other people/ no actual written document. Mishnah: written version of this oral tradition: the rabbis used mishnah to look back at the text/interpretation of. Hebrew bible: codi cation of the mishnah: first activity/major work of rabbinical. Babylonian talmud is the more standardized version.
