RE204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Patrilineality, Kaifeng Jews, Minhag
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Re204 lecture 9 into the middle ages: marked by rabbinic judaism. 1492 - jewish blood, jewish race: people suspicious of jewish converts. Converts to christianity still under suspicion due to blood. Continued religious and theological productivity rabbinic responsa / books. Advent of printing press changes the talmud judaism coexisted alongside its two main colleague faiths (abrahamic religions) The diaspora (6-16th centuries: diaspora - 70-135 ce period between fall of temple and bar kokhba revolt, started with exiles and continued after roman wars, with jews expanding into. Populations in other countries were there long enough to set up their own culture: both voluntary and involuntary and persecution dispersion and movement kept population largely fluid. Jewish communities remained variably connected: expulsion. Catastrophe similar to 70 ce: jews from spain traveled everywhere and changed cultures they interacted with. 1290 - england: disappear from record for 400 years after. Causes mixture of traditions of jews where they settle.
