Well, they've got a few more millennia of dogma piled on top of the scriptures. I see that a lot with Christians too as most tend to believe the dogma rather than what's actually written in the Bible...
So it's all about taking it back to the God breathed words.
It's not a piled-on dogma like Catholic canon stuff. It's a central, fundamental aspect of the entire theology and the whole basis of their Old Testament knowledge in the first place. The authority of their opinions (supposedly) comes straight from Moses, too, the entire point was that some parts of God's words weren't written down so you have to just take their word for it.. literally.
Getting rid of the Talmud would be more like getting rid of the Hadith from Islam.
I think that's one good think about the Protestant Reformation... it basically threw out all the non-Bible stuff, and with many they stick to what the word says...
I can get how that'd be hard to punch through the Talmud with a Jew, but still, they've got most of the Christian Bible as part of their scriptures, so it's worth a shot assuming it can be done gracefully.
As far as Islam goes... that one's basically converting a non-Christian to Christianity. I don't know the specifics, so I'd defer to pedes that do.
Not only are they missing the most important parts of the Christian bible (the ONLY important parts, arguably), they vehemently reject those parts. It's not just about scripture, the Talmud is part of God's word for Jews, and it's irreconcilable with the Gospel.
The same's true for Islam obviously, but if you take their absorption of Abrahamic theology as genuine, i.e. they really do regard Jesus as a prophet and whatnot, you could easily argue they're "closer" to Christianity than Judaism, which completely denies any divine role being played by Jesus at all.
Looking at history, both Islam and Christianity have tried converting Jews in a plethora of ways for centuries, to almost no avail. There doesn't seem to be a graceful way to do it.
Read it. If you think Judaism isnt that different and they "just haven't connected the dots"
Well, they've got a few more millennia of dogma piled on top of the scriptures. I see that a lot with Christians too as most tend to believe the dogma rather than what's actually written in the Bible...
So it's all about taking it back to the God breathed words.
It's not a piled-on dogma like Catholic canon stuff. It's a central, fundamental aspect of the entire theology and the whole basis of their Old Testament knowledge in the first place. The authority of their opinions (supposedly) comes straight from Moses, too, the entire point was that some parts of God's words weren't written down so you have to just take their word for it.. literally.
Getting rid of the Talmud would be more like getting rid of the Hadith from Islam.
I think that's one good think about the Protestant Reformation... it basically threw out all the non-Bible stuff, and with many they stick to what the word says...
I can get how that'd be hard to punch through the Talmud with a Jew, but still, they've got most of the Christian Bible as part of their scriptures, so it's worth a shot assuming it can be done gracefully.
As far as Islam goes... that one's basically converting a non-Christian to Christianity. I don't know the specifics, so I'd defer to pedes that do.
Not only are they missing the most important parts of the Christian bible (the ONLY important parts, arguably), they vehemently reject those parts. It's not just about scripture, the Talmud is part of God's word for Jews, and it's irreconcilable with the Gospel.
The same's true for Islam obviously, but if you take their absorption of Abrahamic theology as genuine, i.e. they really do regard Jesus as a prophet and whatnot, you could easily argue they're "closer" to Christianity than Judaism, which completely denies any divine role being played by Jesus at all.
Looking at history, both Islam and Christianity have tried converting Jews in a plethora of ways for centuries, to almost no avail. There doesn't seem to be a graceful way to do it.