Just take it with a grain of salt Irosie.... The Babylonian Talmud escaped the clutches of Rome and is at least three times the size of the Jerusalem Talmud and it takes precedence as well for any that care to look these things up... Also would like to point out that there were quite a number of Jewish kingdoms outside of Roman influence that thrived for many years till most of them were conquered by Islam... The thing is as Islam conquered these areas they needed a central authority to try to control these areas they chose Rabbinic Judiasm from the area of Babylon and backed them with their power if a misunderstanding or disagreement occurred.. I could go on but again it would be nice if people learned these things on their own...Still that doesn't account for why Constantine would have listened to his mother.
Even that story is suspect darling...You must still be suffering the ill effects of your catechism days.
Why do you suppose the Romans wiped out the pantheon of gods and every other brach of Judaism but allowed rabbinic judaism to persist even after the national religion became compulsory "Christian" worship of a jewish man under penalty of death?
Psst. It wasn't because they were clever. So don't try to be clever now.
what does "the romans wiped out every other branch of Judaism but.....
rabbinic Judaism" mean?? Helena was a very powerful lady----
not just 'his mother' the Jesus sect had already gotten around------in fact
it was popular because Judaism had been popular amongst some greek
and roman intellectuals. There was a time when Christianity was nothing more than a jewish sect centered on a charismatic person (just like early Chassidism). As to 'worship of a jewish man' -----Christianity has been
DIVESTING jesus of his Judaism for the past 2000 years.
Constantine also made conversion to Judaism ILLEGAL <<< first step
to genocide. The church took it from there
What did I mean?
The Jerusalem Talmud was redacted in the year 350 C.E. under the watchful eyes of Roman authorities before widespread publication just a few years after they usurped control over early Christian writings completely destroying every other sect and persecuting and killing anyone who maintained a belief in the hidden nature of those teachings.
What does that tell you?
A modern comparison would be the attempts of the chinese to obliterate the authority of the dali lama and replace him with their own perverse state sanctioned version of Buddhism that eliminated the threat to their control of the population.
no matter what the romans, in your imagination, did
to Talmud Yerushalmi-------they could not have gotten their paws on Talmud Bavli, even in your imagination. What did they do to the Christian writings?
and the "other sects of Judaism"? got wiped out--HOW?
If you are going to act like you don't know what I am talking about there really is no reason to talk to you.
It is very clear that you do not know what you are talking about. My fave is THE ROMANS CONTROLLED THE REDACTION OF THE TALMUD YERUSHLAMI
----as to "knocking out the 'other' jewish sects"----sheeesh ----at least try to name one that got KNOCKED and by whom