This part of my comment is to explain the origins of the Septuagint Greek t***slation of the Old Hebrew Testament Bible and to the religious factions and Geo-Political actions of the people in Israel/Palestine Roman occupation at the time of Jesus Christ's, ministry and teaching of Salvation to the world.
http://www.theopedia.com/SeptuagintArtemis, one has to have a starting point a Juxtaposition, placing two or more things side by side as a starting point and dialog.
Do you agree with the the origin and t***slation of the Old Testament Bible from Hebrew to Greek. Yes or No ? or maybe ? or I don't know ?
The Septuagint (LXX) Septuagint means the 72 Rabi's, who wrote the t***slation and is commonly given in the West to the oldest Greek t***slation of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament).
But recent archeological discoveries predate the Septuagint Bible e.g., the Dead Sea Scrolls from the Jewish religious practicing Essenes.
They are a collection of Jewish texts scrolls (biblical, apocryphal, and sectarian) (the hebrew in these scrolls have no vowels) and has its origins from 700 B.C.E around 200 B.C.E., to the time of Christ and were preserved, above the Dead Sea and were re-discovered in the 20th century which describes the religious and political climate of the Scribes (politicians) Pharisees, Sadducees and the Essenes.
However, there were several different versions of many biblical books in the Second Temple period. In comparison several of these versions differed only slightly from each other, but some versions were very different. After the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Romans in 70 C.E. the Jewish teachings and original Jerusalem many Torah's were destroyed.
The earliest t***slation of the Torah Hebrew Bible to the Old Greek (OG), defines the religion and culture of Jews. It emerged as the descendant of ancient Israelite religion, and is characterized by monotheism and an adherence to the laws present in the written Torah (the old testament Bible) and the Oral Torah (Talmudic/Rabbinic oral tradition).
This is the reason for oral traditions of the "Bardi" which was the easiest method used by many cultures to record history and traditions, word for word, by rote memory.
Incredible don't you agree about the "Bardi" and oral traditions. Yes or No ? or maybe ? or I don't know ?
The Hebrew Torah t***slation made in Alexandria, Egypt, was for the use of the Greek-speaking Jewish community there. At first, just the Torah was t***slated, in the third century B.C.E., and the rest of the biblical books were t***slated later. The whole Hebrew Bible was likely t***slated into ancient Greek by the middle of the second century B.C.E.
The Masoretic Hebrew texts were finally completed 500 and 700 C.E.
The authoritative Hebrew text of the Hebrew Bible, containing both the consonants and the vowels (unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls, which have no vowels).
The earliest existing copies of the Masoretic Text date to the 10th century C.E., is the Hebrew text of the Scriptures approved for general use in Judaism. It is also widely used in t***slations of the Old Testament of Christian Bibles.
These t***slations are important source's for biblical studies (Old and New Testament), to make a distinctive contribution to the history of biblical interpretation, and to be of considerable interest for the understanding of the early development of both Judaism and Christianity.
http://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/tools/bible-basics/what-are-noncanonical-writings.aspxChristianity further developed their faith by oral traditions and the standardized collection of practices by Jesus Christ and the Apostles e.g., the four Gospels and the letters and books found in the New Testament Bible.
Remember many of these Christians were religious practicing Jew's, with the same Jewish ceremonies, readings, rituals, songs, and so forthrelated to worship in a religious tradition and the Old testament scrolls.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church and the Coptic Church is very symbolic to the ritualistic Jewish, roots; ceremonies, readings, rituals, songs, and so forth. Except for Animal sacrifice for sin.
Christians believe that Jesus Christ was the last sacrifice, the new Covenant. as to fulfill the Gospels of the new Testament and fulfillment of the Old Testament prophetic prophesy, and gives mankind and womankind a message of Hope and our Salvation of our spirit and our soul.
You can't take out the Jewishness origins out of Christianity.
What were the differences of the a. Scribes (politicians) b. Pharisees, c. Sadducees, d. Essenes's, e. Jewish Zealots and the f. Samaritans of northern Israel.
a. Scribes (politicians) Both Jewish religious and Roman Political. Basically a modern day turncoat tax collector bureaucrat, making a buck or shekel.
b. Pharisees, the separated ones because of their strict avoidance of gentiles, unclean persons, sinners and Jews less observant of the law, about 150 BC. They emerged as a lay Jewish movement. Their aim was to extend the religion practised in the temple to the everyday life of the people, upper income and middle class, but were not close to the poor.
Jesus discourse with the Pharisees was about their over-legalistic attitude to the essential aspects of the Jewish religion, an emphasis on detailed observances. Being too religious lacking in compassion when it comes to insisting on religious observances. They also believed in a after life of the soul immortal .
c. Sadducees, This group was mainly a priestly and aristocratic movement among the Jews. Their name is derived from the priest, Sadok, whom Solomon appointed to take charge of the ark of the covenant on his accession to power in Jerusalem (1 Kgs. 2:35) and legitimate line of priests for the restored temple (Ezekiel 40:46).
They emerged as a group of priests and wealthy lay people about 130 BC. They believed that the Jewish law was to be interpreted exactly as it had been written without any of the explanatory or additional traditions like those put forward by the Pharisees and they rejected the oral traditions of the Pharisees. Also, they opposed the Pharisees and doctrine. They believed that the soul perished with the body (in Mk.12, Jesus confronts them over this), while the Pharisees believed that the soul was immortal.
The Pharisees were considered to be more virtuous in the eyes of the people. While the Sadducees often owned large estates and enjoyed the confidence of the wealthy. They collaborated with the Romans and were dominant in the trial of Jesus since they saw his religion as an attack on temple religion, which they controlled. The poor did not follow the Sadducees.
d. Essenes, mean "holy ones," are not mentioned in the New Testament. A community living at Qumran on the shores of the Dead Sea in protest against the abuses of the Sadducees high priests of Jerusalem they retired from public life (probably about 150 B.C.) and rejected the temple of Jerusalem and its priesthood and formed a very structured community, a modern day Israel Kibbutz.
They stressed monogamous marriage, some lived a celibate life. They also studied scripture and shared their goods in common. They believed in a final struggle between good and evil that would introduce the age of the Messiah. They alone would share in that great triumph.
e. Zealots, played an important part in the religious and political life of Palestine in the first century AD. They promoted armed revolution against the Romans, they are scarcely mentioned in the Gospels (only Lk. 6:15). Zealots were violent revolutionaries and related to the poor in a hopeless economic state who were ready to take part in violence. The movement and r*******n were supported poor people and by the youth, whereas the Pharisees, Sadducees upper classes sought to maintain peace with Rome.
National liberation and social justice movements reached its climax in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD and the Jewish Diaspora.
Because they were zealous, about Gods law but also about social justice and national liberation, which they believed was to be achieved by armed revolution.
Jesus defended the poor and condemned violent oppression, but we never hear him proclaim armed revolution anywhere in the Gospels.
f. Samaritans, hatred went back to separation of the northern and southern Jewish kingdoms. they lacked unity between the tribes of Jacoband intermarried with new settlers from Mesopotamia and Syria which was forbidden by Moses.
Samaritans worship of Yahweh was mixed with the worship of strange gods and religious practices in essence they became renegades and were despised by Jews. When the Samaritans wanted to rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem, their assistance was rejected.
(Nehemiah 13:28-29) that a grandson of the high priest, Eliashib, had married a daughter of Sanballat, the governor of the province of Samaria.
For defiling the priesthood by marrying a non-Jewish woman, Nehemiah drove Eliashib from Jerusalem. According to the historian Josephus, Sanballat then had a temple built on Mount Garizim apparently this is when the full break between Jews and Samaritans took place.
Though the Samaritans were condemned by the Jews, they probably had as much pure Jewish blood as the Jews who later returned from the Babylonian exile.
Samaritans later allied themselves with the Seleucids in the Maccabean wars and in 108 B.C. the Jews destroyed the Samaritan temple and ravaged the territory.
Around the time of Jesus' birth, a band of Samaritans profaned the Temple in Jerusalem by scattering the bones of dead people in the sanctuary. And is similar to the burning of Black Churches, and Jewish Synagogs we should be able to understand the anger and h**e such acts would incite.
Imagine the hatred between Samaritans and the Jews, both politics and religion were involved.
Sorry about that, But you should understand what was happening religiously and geopolitically in Palestine and with the political provinces of King Herod in that time period.
Why was Jesus Christ message was and was preached so profound to rich and the poor and was compelling against all cultures and peoples from the Romans, Samaritans the Jews, the pagans.
Why was Jesus Christ message so embraced ? Yes or No ? or maybe ? or I don't know ? In our present day modern culture, we are seeing this rejection on religion by the young and various groups. Religion and morality is in decline do you not agree ? Are their any similarities ?
Kinda sounds familiar: like Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives and Libertarian and Non-Political and political apathy. Christian religious and Agnostics, Atheists, Spiritual, Creationism, Darwinism, Islam, Judaism, Buddhist, Hindus, Satanism and materialism.
Jesus Christ was a practicing Jew from birth with his circumcision and a Jewish Father and Mother and his last seven word that he spoke Jesus quoted from the Psalms 21.
Sadly this removal has been done after the reformation of 1517 by Martin Luther and a slow removal of Jewishness and Catholicism by the 2,800 different kinds of Protestant Christian denominations.
I was invited to go to a Protestant Christian Church service and was surprised to see their new founded Church creed, a plagiarism version from the Nicene Creed and the original, orthodoxy Christian belief written 1680 years ago .. I said nothing but shook my head.
Their have always been division in religion just as in politics countries, social and societies. Yes or No ? or maybe ? or I don't know ?