EL'AZAR; YESHU; AND TMA

<p>I am projecting to my hoped audience of Jews ---and Orthodox Jews in particular--- a very different accounting of Judaism in general; an accounting with emphasis on Scripture first and foremost. And then there are the more nuanced offerings of portions of our Talmud Bavli produced by those subtle ���final anonymous editors��� of our Bavli from roughly 575 to roughly 610ce. Subtlety was the only coinage in this orchestration by the ���final anonymous editors���. The over-arching power of Rabbinic Officialdom could be checked only by subtle and indirect insertions into ���The Record��� by our glorious final editors of the Talmud Bavli. God bless them.</p><p>Take heed:</p><p>I am quite consciously attempting to strip you of multiple presuppositions which -- if those presuppositions permeate your reading of this production -- would give you a false understanding of what I am putting forth.</p><p>I fully realize that my presentation of these things is not the ���received��� presentation of these things. So when you first read it you are likely to presume that I am <-- like a dufus without any consciousness of such --> akin to say a ���bar Hei Hei��� <or one of those ���heretics��� which populate so much of Genesis Rabbah> thereby giving one a good conscience to quickly dismiss my accounting of things Jewish. It is absolutely amazing how people entrenched in a received tradition do not really HEAR what is being offered to them when it comes from a perspective to which they are not habituated. There is only one way to break that ugly danger: </p><p>repetitio mater studiorum</p><p>resiliationin the father of truth</p><p>Take it or leave it. The burden is now on you.</p>