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To: MarkBsnr

Forget about the language. What about the understanding of Hellenistic Judaism?

You can’t remove a language from the culture that gave it birth without losing the context.


131 posted on 12/12/2011 7:26:47 PM PST by rzman21
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To: rzman21
Forget about the language. What about the understanding of Hellenistic Judaism? You can’t remove a language from the culture that gave it birth without losing the context.

Excellent point. Hellenistic Judaism really different from the rabbinical Judaism which evolved later.

154 posted on 12/13/2011 9:14:22 AM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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