Are there any good Jewish especially Hellenic Jewish writings made before Jesus Christ came to Earth? I know that Philo of Alexandria was able to come pretty close to true Christianity before Jesus, did anyone else come nearly as close as he did?
Are there any good Jewish especially Hellenic Jewish writings made before Jesus Christ came to Earth...
Christopher Russell
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Charles Morris
Judaism was Christianity before Jesus
Adrian Wright
tigga what
Eli Young
I understand that, I mean I just mean writings (outside the Old Testament) that really show that. Whenever I look for Jewish writings it's just a bunch of midrash crap from the fifth century by pharisees who hate Christianity
Colton Sullivan
Interesting about Philo. I had thought he was after Christ but he lived through Christ's earthly life (roughly 20 BC - AD 50).
Ryan Gonzalez
No it isn't. Judaism was invented after the destruction of the temple. It is the heresy of judaizing, hence Judaism. The old testament religion had no name, just like God did not reveal his name until moses.
Camden Allen
Jews (Yehudis) are people of Judah (Yehudá), like Iraqis are from Iraq and Yemenis from Yemen.
Christians are followers of Christ originally called Nazarenes and Nazoraians (followers of the Nazerene).
Oliver Nelson
Christianity was a Jewish esotericism, the heirarchy and those influential was largely decadent at the time that is why Christ rebuked them as 'whited sepulchres', himself coming in the 'fullness of time' to reinvigorate and fulfill the old covenant religion. Philo was a oddity for his time.
Landon Anderson
Philo was contemporary to Christ, before the Pharisees memory holed everything that supported Christianity (well, as much as they could get away with)
Logan Morgan
Philo is the one with the most complete surviving corpus, although other writers are quoted in early church writings:
Ryan Myers
Lolno. Philo's nearly a gnostic.
Colton Reyes
>worshiped another god?
good meme
Nathaniel Davis
Literally none of your points are correct
Andrew Foster
Hello, Luther.
Jace Richardson
tigga what
Camden Gonzalez
Throughout the old testament, hebrews have been turning there back to God and worshipping other things. Over and over again.
Elijah Rodriguez
if it wasnt canon why settle for something less?
Lincoln Hall
… Which isn't exclusive to Jews?
YHWH is the the God of their people, and is ours.
Xavier Mitchell
Curiousity. I've read the OT twice and the NT three times. I'm planning on another full readthrough, and I want to try to get into the habit or reading the NT constantly
It seems like you are being kinda pedantic, though you're not outright wrong. Jews absolutely were huge sinners in the OT, I mean are there any good writings by faithful God-believers before Jesus came that aren't in the Old Testament. I used Philo as an example because I always hear good things about him
Aaron Powell
Right now I plan on reading
Brayden Nguyen
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