<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:56 PM, James Wynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">crushtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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2) I'm of Jewish descent, and if I were a practicing Jew
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a rather poorly practicing Catholic) I would take strong
offense at<br>
your characterization of the Torah. That is a Christian's view
of the<br>
Torah, but not a Jew's.<br>
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Not since the end of the Second Temple, certainly. Point
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I took Matthew's post to be speaking from the POV of a Christian
theology to the exclusion of others.<br>
Albeit, it must be admitted that his characterization was originally
defined by Jews who happened to believe that Jesus was the Jewish
promised savior. <br>
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And, as I was instructed by an Orthodox Jew, modern Judaism was born
in the 2nd century to continue Jewish traditions in absence of a
Temple and in conscious response to Christians.<br>
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</div></blockquote><div> </div></div>That's funny; I was just thinking (after reading Dan'l's response) the same thing--that modern Judaism has been unalterably conditioned by the loss of the Temple and the dominance of Christianity. The destruction of the Temple certainly put paid to the Sadducees; today's rabbinical tradition is a direct descendant of the Pharasaical party which gets such a bad rap in the Gospels.<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matt +<br><br>Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.<br> Sextus Propertius (54 B.C.-A.D. 2), Elegies, II, i, 46<br><br>