Boid's Soon to be Published Reference to Shilo = Chrestos

[StephenGoranson]

"That Philo was a descendant of the oldest Sadducaic traditions and that Alexandrian Judaism had an affinity for Samaritanism. This is controversial too?"
Yes, or, less controversial than just your thing.

Among Sadducees, Samaritans, Karaites(!!), and Philo
who among them called their determinations "halakhah"??

[Secret Alias]

Boid demonstrates over and over again how the oldest traditions had similar or at least compatible halakhah. Maybe read the attached article.

[StephenGoranson]

Before Pharisees who called their determinations "halakhah"?

[Secret Alias]

Here's his big book. Benny always identified Boid as one of the few who knew. https://books.google.com/books?id=Kw3SY ... te&f=false Schiffman liked the book too.

[Secret Alias]

The interpretation of the Torah agreed between the oldest sects.

[Secret Alias]

All three typically agree against the Rabbanites. https://books.google.com/books?id=Kw3SY ... te&f=false There are of course disagreements against the Karaites and the Sadducees and agreements with the Pharisees against the aforementioned sects. But the pattern is the pattern.

[StephenGoranson]

"Karaite halakhah" is an oxymoron.

[Secret Alias]

Then I guess you know more than the publishers of his book.

[Secret Alias]

A selection

The Talmud , and the Gemara to Megillat Taanit , 129 remark on the ineptness of Sadducean proofs from Scripture to support their opinions . What does not seem to have been noticed in the accounts of the Sadducean responses is that most of the Sadducean representatives are unable to offer any proof from Scripture at all , inept or not , which means they did not normally derive halakha by exegesis . The Pharisees accuse them of only being able to offer ' useless talk ' instead of the ' perfect Tora ' of the Pharisees . In the context , this means that they were only able to offer information about the halakha , but were not able to rely on the union of an oral Tora and a written Tora . In another place , the Gemara to Megillat Taanit130 tells us that they had traditional knowledge of halakha , but that it was not treated by them as halakha , but that it was not treated by them as equal in status to the text of the Tora . All of this corresponds exactly to the Samaritan outlook . The resemblance goes deeper . We are told , in the passage just mentioned , how they interpreted the text of Scripture to derive items of halakha . In their method of interpretation , and the theory that is assumed , they agree with the Samaritans . The explanation , which have been consistently misunderstood . We are told that the Boethusians took the expression ' an eye for an eye , a tooth for a tooth ' in Exod 21:24 to mean that the same injury had to be inflicted on the perpetrator . Contrary to popular belief , rabbinic exegesis interprets this expression the same way . The reason that monetary compensation can be substituted is that other verses show that the perpetrator is not to bear the consequences that he is actually liable to : instead , strict justice is to be suspended by mercy . 131 The Boethusians , we are told , said that the perpetrator had to be made equal to the injured person . Contrary to popular opinion , this was actually their way of removing any physical penalty from the perpetrator . The Samaritans and some Karaites argue that a physical penalty can never legally be carried out , because no two people are in exactly the same state of health , physical condition , or age , or have exactly the same range of normal activities, which means that no physical penalty could ever be exacted appropriate in any case. The Karaite commentators use this legal technicality for the purpose of leniency…If I understand the author [of the Samaritan Kashif al–Ghayahib] correctly he raises the possibility that instead of a monetary fine, or compensation, no penalty at all may be legal.

[Secret Alias]

Oxford another worthless publisher https://academic.oup.com/book/3559/chapter/144827238 As Boid told me at the beginning of our friendship, all traditions have halakhah.