re: #79 LudwigVanQuixote

Yes but those someone’s who took it that other way would not be Jews, or members of a Jewish court.

I’m not sure what you mean by this. The interpretation may have been different in different subsets of Jews back before . You can argue that they weren’t Jews if they didn’t interpret the law correctly, but the Jews were not a coherent unit for the entire time before the mishnah.

I think I must have read the original comments quite differently than you did.

Yes, you did.