Jews and early Christians, living in the shadow of the lost Temple, both began to develop a conception of a more compassionate, caring, slow-to-anger God than the texts of their inherited tradition. The idea that God maybe wasn’t so angry after all was not an evolution unique to Christianity. It was a fundamental idea of rabbinic Judaism too, which we are an outgrowth of today.
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Rabbinic vs. Early Christian views on God: Was God really so grumpy?
Posted in Jewish, tagged Christian scholarship, Christian views on god, Jewish scholarship, Jewish views on god on April 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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