RE: Judaism - What is judaism - When did it start?
November 26, 2021 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2021 at 1:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think I’d say that they don’t actually share any foundation. The beliefs arose in wildly disparate people across centuries and the circumstances each time different in nearly every regard.
-and yes, when you spend generations in a foreign land that has a noticeable effect on your ethnic and religious makeup. Some part of the ot narrative is -literally- returnees introducing themselves to the people who had never left or since came.
Hey, we’re back!
-who are you?
The rightful owners and rulers of this land!
-never heard of ya
Well sit down, we have a story.
There -was no- Judaism, if contemporary Judaism is the mold, before that defining event that so much of the ot is about. Kings, the prophetic works, the law- all of it records and contextualizes internecine conflict and waves of migration that weaken an exceedingly polarized culture sat in the middle of two more powerful regions whose armies laid waste to the space between as a casual matter of travel.
There are myths and foundational legends-yes, but much of it is comprised of what we would call socio-political commentary, today. Prophets are pundits who, from the pov of the disseminating interest, got more right than wrong on balance, and whose as yet unrealized prognostication satisfies the same as a desired past and future.
The arc of a peoples history with future triumph a given.
-and yes, when you spend generations in a foreign land that has a noticeable effect on your ethnic and religious makeup. Some part of the ot narrative is -literally- returnees introducing themselves to the people who had never left or since came.
Hey, we’re back!
-who are you?
The rightful owners and rulers of this land!
-never heard of ya
Well sit down, we have a story.
There -was no- Judaism, if contemporary Judaism is the mold, before that defining event that so much of the ot is about. Kings, the prophetic works, the law- all of it records and contextualizes internecine conflict and waves of migration that weaken an exceedingly polarized culture sat in the middle of two more powerful regions whose armies laid waste to the space between as a casual matter of travel.
There are myths and foundational legends-yes, but much of it is comprised of what we would call socio-political commentary, today. Prophets are pundits who, from the pov of the disseminating interest, got more right than wrong on balance, and whose as yet unrealized prognostication satisfies the same as a desired past and future.
The arc of a peoples history with future triumph a given.
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