[ SECRET POST #2958 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2958 ⌋

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Re: Sometimes I wish more people knew....

[ketita]

I should add though, it really is a cool idea. You know, according to the Talmud there was actually a time when the Romans were considering making Judaism the official religion - and then Christianity came along and it was much easier, so they went with that.
For the workings of Jewish communities you could probably look up what was done in ancient communities that existed from the time of the first Temple, such as in Babylon, Alexandria, Rome, etc.
I've actually been toying with a Jewish alternate-history Middle Ages idea myself, though I went in a totally different direction with it.

Re: Sometimes I wish more people knew....

[lb_lee]

Really? That's fascinating! I actually have been meaning to read up on the Torah and Talmud, it's just that there are SO MANY ways to take it on that I kinda get overwhelmed and don't know where to start. Any advice?

That's a great idea about the ancient communities. Just to my frustration, I have a really hard time finding books on that here, and I can't really afford to buy a ton of books sight unseen from the library. I can't even find decent books on CARTHAGE, never mind Judaism. I've found a TINY bit about the Alexandrian Jews, but only buried within other books on Hellenistic Egypt and Rome.

(I am kind of annoyed that I have to read so much about Rome when they're NOT IN THE DAMN HISTORY I'M WRITING. But all the history from the period seems to come from them.)

Seriously, where have you been for all these years! You're like, the exact set of knowledge I've been needing since 2010 when I started this damn project!

--Rogan

Re: Sometimes I wish more people knew....

[ketita]

Everyman's Talmud, and perhaps a book called Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash.
The difficulty you're running into is that Jewish society is shaped by halachic rulings, and in those days they had a Sanhedrin to clarify things, and also a Beit Din. Many societal changes would be directly affected and influenced by the rulings and decisions made. The period you're in is going into the Middle Ages, and you'd have some really big-name rabbis running around by then - like Maimonides. Maimonides was a realist, but how would his rulings be affected if magery was still common in society? He wasn't big on Kabbalah, and he ruled demons out of existence (unlike the more Kabbalistic schools of the time). So how would that reality have affected him - or he reality? It's a big question. Overall Judaism is on a trend of embracing the world (and technology, btw!).
So these things would have had long-reaching impact on the way Jews lived their lives and ordered their communities.

I really don't understand how you're not finding books about Jewish history. There are thousands of them O_O you've read Josephus, I hope? I mean that's just the very top of the barrel. And the two books of Maccabees.