RELI 1710 Lecture Notes - Talmud, Folk Religion, Sadducees
26 Feb 2014
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People change, people meet other people and change. If you look at the world census (pie chart). Christians and muslims, theological explaination is that god likes christians or muslims better than jews. They are missionary religions, want to convert others, jews do not. To tell the history of jews is to tell the history of many civilizations and much of history. Influenced and were influenced by canaanites, assyrians, ethiopians, babylonians, persians, Have mostly been ruled under, sometimes ruled over. Takes away from their pure race, therefore there is no pure race. According to rabbinic (sp) law now, you are jewish if your mother is jewish. You can change what you think or act, but can"t change the fact that you"re jewish. More lenient forms of judaism argues that this is too strict (liberals) converting can also make you. Jews can"t agree with one another with who is jewish. There is no governing body over world jewry.
