Re: Is the new poster/new observer still here?

Dan Kimmel wrote: 
"Mimi Cohen" <imnot@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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cindys wrote:

Hi, I was just wondering if Mimi and Erin were still with us or if all 

this

hostility had driven them away? :-(
Best regards,
---Cindy S.


I don't know about Erin, but I'm still here. I've decided to stay out of
your (plural) arguments, I would however like to know what Pharassees
(sp?) were / are.



The Pharisees were the rabbis a couple of millennia ago as oppose to the
Saducees, who were the ones running the Temple priesthood.

Where this gets interesting (and ugly) is that around 2000 years ago, during
the Roman occupation, the Saducees were corrupt and in the control of the
Romans.  They were the ones who were involved in that brouhaha with the ones
the Christians claim as their messiah.  By the time the Christians got
around to *writing* their "New" Testament, the Temple was destroyed and the
Saducees were gone.  So they made a point of blaming the Pharisees, as the
Jewish authorities who were now denying the divinity of their messiah, but
who would have had nothing to do with it.

You might want to get a hold of a history of the Jewish people at some
point.  I read "Jews, God and History" by Max I. Dimont, which used to be
considered the standard popular book on the subject, but there are others
out there as well.


Thank you, you've always given the best advice :)
.

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