RLG202Y1 Lecture Notes - Nashim, Moed, Family Law
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2) way in which christianity is responsible for the preservation of. A lot of jews living in the regions around israel. All of the major cities around the mediterranean had jewish communities in them. People who emigrate from one culture to another will retain it for at least 2/3 generations. But the jews were there for several centuries surviving in the diaspora. Also jewish communities in the persian empire. The temple and the torah (translated to greek) helped in the diaspora. The rabbinic group only saw the worth in hebrew scripture: forms it took. 1) hellenistic judaism in the greek language. 3) essential that education had become a part of judaism so that there was a high level of education. 5) synagogue another crucial [art of the survival (meeting and educational center and a place of prayer): distinctive beliefs (the septuagint)
