Judaism isn’t immune to anti-intellectual fundamentalism. A good example is the 11th Century Mediterranean world. In the Muslim sphere of influence, Jewish cu

Judaism isn’t immune to anti-intellectual fundamentalism. A good example is the 11th Century Mediterranean world. In the Muslim sphere of influence, Jewish culture was highly intellectual, and produced numerous scholars. In the Christian sphere of influence, Jewish culture was highly fundamentalist, and produced almost no native Jewish scholars. Heck, modern day Israel or New York offers almost the same contrast, as did the first century Middle East. Judaisms tendency to split into these two camps, usually simultaneously, is one of its many fascinating features.