> It always amazes me how many people have opinions about the Torah without studying the Talmud in it's entirety Well my reading in Seminary was anywhere from

> It always amazes me how many people have opinions about the Torah without studying the Talmud in it's entirety Well my reading in Seminary was anywhere from 2,00-14,000 pages per class. There is NO WAY I could read the complete Talmud (What length is it? At LEAST 5,000 pages and it is difficult to get the order right with the writing) Time - Well I would place it from what 200 BCE to 500 CE and that is way out of from the writing of the Torah. Big Error - We treat writing from ANE with the eyes and genres of 21th century people. We try to fit them into our mold. There would be no concern what so ever about the authorship being true or not just like how Pseudepigrapha works were also very much accepted with the full knowledge that another author wrote that work. Clearly Enoch didn't write the Book of Enoch but that didn't keep people from reading it and accepting it. Heck The Book of Enoch is quoted in Jude.