RLG100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 115-139: Talmud, Jewish Question, Finite Difference
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After the bar kochba revolt, judaism developed under the guidance of the rabbis the successors of the priestly leaders leaders of the previous period. The rise of christianity: when the roman emperor constantine gave christians the liberty to practice their faith he began the progress that led to christianity becoming the official religion of the roman empire. Christian attitudes toward the jews had been shaped in large part by the fact that christianity had begun as a jewish sect. Jesus was jewish as were his earliest disciplines. At this christians wanted to separate their movement from judaism. Christian literature blamed the jews for the death of jesus, this charge would be recycled in later centuries whenever tension between jews and christians were high. Jewish life under islam: islam emerged in early seventeenth century and would be soon have a deep impact on jewish history.
