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« Reply #325 on: September 04, 2013, 01:53:37 PM »

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all!  Le'shana Tova!
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« Reply #326 on: September 04, 2013, 02:01:08 PM »

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all!  Le'shana Tova!

And Happy Rosh Hashanah back to you Ben.
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« Reply #327 on: September 04, 2013, 02:45:08 PM »

 Judaism does not have a sola scriptura attitude towards the Hebrew Bible.

Oh?

Karaite Judaism

Granted, the Karates aren't numerous, nor are they quite as literal minded as some evangelical Protestants, but they certainly are the closest approximation to Protestantism in Judaism.
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« Reply #328 on: September 04, 2013, 05:16:54 PM »

Just how different are the Jewish texts and the "Old Testament"?
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« Reply #329 on: September 04, 2013, 07:04:09 PM »

Just how different are the Jewish texts and the "Old Testament"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books
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« Reply #330 on: September 10, 2013, 01:16:46 PM »

Just how different are the Jewish texts and the "Old Testament"?

Well, the Jewish Bible is the Tanakh, which is an acronym (the T stands for Torah, the N for Nevi'im or Prophets, and the K for Ketuvim or writings) and the Tanakh is assembled in that order.  Thus, the Jewish Tanakh has a different order of its books than a Protestant New Testament (and, as the poster above me mentioned, the Catholic Old Testament has a number of books that aren't in either the Jewish or Protestant Old Testament).  The main difference between a Jewish Tanakh and a Protestant Old Testament is the ordering of the books and that there's a general idea that the Torah is more important than everything else in the canon.

That said, Jewish canon doesn't end with the scripture itself, and the thousands-year old commentaries on commentaries on commentaries has a sort of secondary canonical power itself.  The first layer is the Mishnah, which is a compilation of rabbinic commentary and interpretation from ~100 BCE to ~200 CE.  The Gemara, a set of discussions on the Mishnah written between ~200 CE, to 500 CE, is the next level down.  The Mishnah and the Gemara are together known as the Talmud, a document about 5 times as long as the Tanakh itself.

In addition, there are various non-canonical but elucidating rabbinical myths called the Midrash that serve to explain various Bible stories.  The Book of Exodus says that Moses has a speech impediment?  The Rabbis invented a Midrash explaining why he did: young Moses, in his Prince of Egypt days, was offered a choice between grabbing a golden idol or a bundle of burning coal.  He touched the coal instead of the idol, then, as children do, touched it to his mouth, burning his tongue.  The Midrash are explicitly non-canonical but the better ones are quite famous and are treated as semi-canonical anyway.
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« Reply #331 on: July 25, 2015, 08:06:28 PM »

Big bump.

Today is Tisha B'Av, an important (fast) day in memory of the destruction of the Second Temple (and Jerusalem). Tzom kal, Jewish Atlasians!
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