re: #80 Obdicut

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.

Ultimately this becomes a very long discussion of the transmission of the Oral Law and the various splits between Sadducim and Parushim. It is a topic I would love to get into, and I truly do enjoy discussing things with you, but I simply do not have the time to do so tonight. I am going to be heading out shortly.

Can we take a rain check?