PSYCO239 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Baal Shem Tov, Merkabah Mysticism, Sabbatai Zevi
15 Mar 2014
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For studying also go to p. 158 of text book for glossary and such. *the period after 70 ce distinguishes hellenistic judaism, a time of competing sects (sadducees, pharisees, essenes, zealots) and revolutions (maccabean and zealot) from a time of. Rabbi"s, codification, diaspora, and synagogue worship focused around scripture and commentary. this period is called classical judaism and this is the period we are still in. Torah (law) + nevi"im (prophets) + ketuvim (writings) only texts written initially in hebrew admitted (maccabees was written in greek and so wasn"t allowed into the corpus) After the biblical corpus had been fixed, the rabbis proceeded to collect and add to the body of. Followed the structure of the books in the hebrew canon with line by line commentary. The codification of jewish legal heritage, passed down orally in the parisaic tradition, consists of two parts: the mishnah and the talmud. The mishnah outlined six "orders" or divisions: seeds (agriculture), festivals, women,
