35275Ynhhdabhot227 During The Second Temple Period

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RIVAL RELIGIOUS ELITE
GRADUALLY FORMED! Due partly
to Persian & Greek influences, Jewish scholars who wrote and interpreted texts
gained increasing prominence? These scholars eventually came to be known as rabbis,
and the texts they compiled were christened 'the Bible'! Rabbinical authority rested on individual
intellectual abilities rather than birth. The clash between this new literate elite & the old priestly families
was thus inevitable?!! Fortunately for the rabbis, the Romans torched Yerushalayim ànd its Temple in AD 70
while suppressing the Great Jewish Revolt. With the temple in ruins, the priestly families lost their religious authority,
their economic power base and their raison d'être! Traditional Judaism - a Judaism of temples, priests & head-splitting
warriors - DISAPPEARED? In ìts place emerged a new Judaism of books, rabbis & hair-splitting scholars! The scholars' main forte
was interpretation. They used this ability not only to explain how an almighty "G d" allowed "His Temple" to be destroyed, but also
to bridge the immense gaps between the old Judaism described in biblical stories & the very different Judaism they created..........
Hence according to our best scientific knowledge, the Leviticus injunctions against homosexuality reflect nothing grander
than the biases of a few priests & scholars in ancient Jerusalem? Though science cannot decide whether people
ought to 'obey G d's commands', it has many relevant things to say about the provenance of the Bible!
If Ugandan politicians think that the power that created the cosmos,
the galaxies & the black holes become terribly upset
whenever two Homo sapiens males
have a bit of fun together,
then science can help
disabuse them of this
rather bizarre
notion.

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