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“Judaism only became a “religion of the book”—that is, one whose core entailed the study of sacred texts—following the destruction of the Second Temple by the R
by onecommentman 5y ago
“Judaism only became a “religion of the book”—that is, one whose core entailed the study of sacred texts—following the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70.”
So the Torah itself could be seen as the Third Temple, or the true First Temple rebuilt, manifested in a form that could never be torn down, stone by stone, ever again? A form that could ever be with the Jews in their trials and travels over the Centuries, carried and copied and taught. A poetic thought…
- nickloewen 5y agoAs I understand it, this idea is quite similar to how the central scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib, is understood in Sikhi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Granth_Sahib https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Granth_Sahib
- nyokodo 5y ago> So the Torah itself could be seen as the Third Temple What ruins the poetry is that the Temple was for making sacrifices to God as commanded in the law. The Torah itself is demonstrably unable to facilitate this sacrifice making the poetic comparison quite weak.