Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period testifies to the great variety of religious practices that characterized Judaism in the twelve hundred years between approximately 600 C.E. and 1800 C.E. Although this vast span of time has often been regarded monochromatically, scholars have increasingly come to speak of this period’s enormous complexity. The more that w...

essenes are a sect of jewish that dwelled in palestine and syria and have been known as ascetics in jew history in second century (bc).this sect because of their special doctorine and rituals that is different of other jewish sects are accounted as heralds of christianity.all of information about this sect has been drived from greek sources and qumran documents that it´s possible these document...

H. J. Schoeps begins his chapter on "Paul's Teaching about the Law" in his highly acclaimed work, Paul: The Theology of the Apostle in the Light of Jewish Religious History, with the remark that "the Pauline understanding of the law [is] the most intricate doctrinal issue in his theology." It deserves this accolade, according to Peter Stuhlmacher, "not only because Paul's terminology is highly ...