RLGA02H3 : lecture 4
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Rabbinical judaism: revelation and interpretation, no longer be practiced, ex. Ethnical behaviour can"t go to temple but can form a group and human behaviour (at least 10 males: how community can be maintained. In terms of hellenistic judaism: rabbinical tradition: major focus is on interpretation. Survival: codification of making scriptures; in order to preserve the tradition old idea of permance comes from getting things done on paper: written toran: Idea of coming revelation and collecting it into a book, and making an identity of it. It is ongoing in 3 of these traditions. Islam: idea of closing the revelation (not changing), it"s a sense of been fixed book/scripture. It is the activities of interpretation, another word know as exegesis. I t"s the interpretation revealed of secret scriptures www. notesolution. com. Babylonian talmud: more popular and standardized text, relates to babylonian exile (after the return, some jews stayed in babylonia and continued this tradition, done by rabbinical jews.