The Development of Rabbinical Judaism

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This paper discusses the definition of Rabbinical Judaism and examines its historical development. It explores the history of the sect including its roots in Pharisaical doctrine and the Rabbinical movement. It also discusses how the teachings of Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai influenced rabbinical teaching and the importance of Rabbinical Judaism to Jewish history.

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"Wagner also writes that the ancestry of the Pharisee movement can be traced to the Hasidim of the second century BC, these were the men referred to as pious and saintly in Israel who wanted to maintain a reverence for Mosaic Law among the descendants of the Jews who returned from the Babylonian captivity. The loyalty that these men had to their covenant relationship with God provoked them to instruct the descendants to keep the Law of God even when confronted with pressure from worldly Hellenization by the Greek-oriented, Seleucid monarchy attempted to Hellenize the Jewish people in a myriad of ways and caused the Jews to discard their faith which was based on Mosaic law. (Wagner)"

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