Dura Europas Synagogue(Scenes from Book of Esther)
Purity & Food Laws
“building a wall around the Torah”
Mikveh: a ritual pool (1st cent., Temple Mount)
Rabbinic Literature
• Mishnah: Judah ha-Nasi—before 220
• Tosefta
• Talmudim• Babylonian Talmud (ca. 500)• Palestinian/Jerusalem Talmud (ca. 400)
• Midrash: Lilith & Creation Accounts
Noachic Covenant & Gentiles
1. no blasphemy2. no idolatry3. no bloodshed4. no incest5. no theft6. no eating flesh of living animals
(basically, blood)7. recognition of the true God
(sometimes)