The Academic Confession: Scholars Admit the Persian Influence
They Know. They've Always Known. PART 1: THE TALMUD WAS WRITTEN IN PERSIA The Basic Facts Scholars Admit "The Babylonian Talmud is full of Iranian words. Rabbis could understand spoken Persian, we do not know what dialect, but could not read the written language" "For nine centuries Babylonian Jews lived under Iranian rulers, Parthian, then Sasanian, from the middle of the 2nd century BCE to the 7th century CE" "The…
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They Know. They've Always Known. PART 1: THE TALMUD WAS WRITTEN IN PERSIA The Basic Facts Scholars Admit "The Babylonian Talmud is full of Iranian words. Rabbis could understand spoken Persian, we do not know what dialect, but could not read the written language" "For nine centuries Babylonian Jews lived under Iranian rulers, Parthian, then Sasanian, from the middle of the 2nd century BCE to the 7th century CE" "The Bavli is full of Iranian words and motifs, such as the resurrection of the dead and the last judgment, that are familiar in Zoroastrianism" Translation: The foundation of modern Judaism (Babylonian Talmud) was written in Persia, by rabbis who spoke Persian, filled with Persian words and Zoroastrian concepts. PART 2: RABBIS WERE CRITICIZED FOR BEING "TOO PERSIANIZED" The Talmud's Own Admission "According to both Talmuds, this innovation was introduced by R.
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