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Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism--that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church--Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from... read more
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- Philo: Add a description of this character.
- Adam
- Rabbi Yohanan
- Pauline
- Rabbi Elcazar
- Rabbi Eliezer
- Miriam
- Rachel
- R. Eliezer
- Rabbi Yehoshua
- Peter Brown
- Rabbi Shimcon
- Joseph
- Albeck
- Bloch
- Ray Kahana
- Dabai
- Adler
- Rashi
- Shmuel
- Rava
- R. Meir
- Rabbi Akiva
- Rabbi Erazar
- Jacob
- Rabbi Meir
- Resh Lakish
- Augustine
- Frankel
- David Biale
- Moses
- Rabbi Yehuda
- Clement
- Wegner
- Ben-azzai
- Aaron
- Pandora
- Ray Ada
- Davis
- Mopsik
- Ray Papa
- Tzipporah
First Sentence edit
One of the tendencies of Greek-speaking Judaism-including Paul's-that divided it from rabbinic Judaism seems to have been the acceptance of what might be broadly called a platonic conception of the human being, for which the soul is the self, and the body only its dwelling place or worse.
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- Daniel Boyarin (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 296
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