(April 19, 2013 at 6:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Jesus was identified as a rabbi before there were rabbis.
Ssshhh...Drippy is easily confused.
Getting back to political bible archaeology, arkies in Israel have realized there is a problem with the recent jewish invention that there were always rabbis in addition to priests. They are now busily engaged in discovering ancient synagogues. You may recall one of the spurious bits of "evidence" of a captivity in Babylon was the discovery of a synagogue because the foundation looked sort of like what modern synagogues would look like if the niche for the Torah scrolls were actually part of the foundation. That is a verbal form of a "how many errors can you find in this picture" puzzle.
Perhaps it was realizing that a 6th. c. BC synagogue in Babylon had to be compared to a 6th c. BC synagogue in bibleland that got them started.
