Aug 15, 2021
Keynote ep: The rabbis now make their appearance: the heroes ben
Zakkai and more Gamaliels than you can shake a stick at. Scholars
grudgingly hold they are rebranded Pharisees, but they are willing
to change their minds.
The Romans diverted the old Temple tithe paid by the diaspora into
a new tax, the fiscus Judaicus. As the Romans tried to work who was
a Jew, and hence liable for the tax, they accidentally created the
first formal distinction between Jews and Christians.
We also see the writing of the last apocalypses and testaments.