Continuing our Intellectual Devotional series, I get to make our first post on the Sunday readings in the Religion category. Coming from a very religious background (which I eventually rejected), I feel like I'm fairly well-informed on this topic, at least from a fundamentalist Christian perspective. Depending on how you look at it, religion is either one of my least or one of my most favorite subjects, since my discussions on it often turn into angry rants.
Thankfully, the Devotional approaches the topic from a secular vantage point. While it briefly mentions traditional beliefs regarding its origins, it spends more time discussing actual historical/archaeological facts and theories.
A few new facts for me are the division of the Torah itself versus the Mishna (which I had never heard of before) and the Talmud (of which I was vaguely aware). Like I said, I'm definitely coming from a Christian, rather than Jewish, background.
I'm definitely curious to see whether the authors touch on anything controversial in future Sunday readings.
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