HIST 1702T Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Rabbinic Judaism, Rabbinic Literature, Star Of David
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Religious people speak from experience and outsider view is considered the scholarly view and secularization of the older views thus the difference religious vs. secular study of religion. Although there is no borderline the east is considered to be religions that contain sages and teachers with insight and western contain prophets with revelations. The second temple collapsed and power no longer rested with priests but rabbis (leader, master, teacher and legal specialists) and they wanted unified community to practice their law (rabbinic. Judaism ( and it was not hereditary but handed interpretation of law to an educated class open to anyone seeking education and today jews are rabbinic jews and temple services are transformed into and recorded in synagogue. Synagogues served as a place of assembly, study and prayer. Torah became the niche (eternal lamp) to be read in synagogues. Six panted star called magen david is in synagogues.