Blessed are the Peacemakers (Meshulam, Noahides)
How must one understand the long history of spoken tradition behind the Oral Torah (Mishna, Talmuds, et al), and with so much empasis on Hebrew texts or even other languages, i.e Aramaic, Kione (Judeo Greek), Proto Arabic (Judeo-Arabic) et al; should the textual paper trail operate secondary and confirmatory?
I think so, as the most revelatory text is the LXX or Septuagint, produced by Jewish scribes in the 3rd-2nd century BC, it reveals the Oral Torah and given alongside the Written Torah. Throughout NT texts ts influence is evident; for example Jesus’ reading in the synagogue in Luke 4:16 with Isaiah 61. Speculative interpretations aside, the language tracks the LXX.
Bart Ehrman concludes that all the different NT texts do not change the meaning but there are many mistakes that ‘misquote Jesus’ or at least his presuppostion that he was founding a new religion. The problem emerges later with the integration of early Christians, as both proselytes and lost sheep Jews. Then much later after Constantine (who outlawed the Bema seat Synagogue in 333) rejected the authority of the Pharisees or the Eastern synagogues.
The late 1st century Jerusalem dispersion had plenty of communities it interacted with to the East, which the victors of a new religion slandered, marginalzed and persecuted by a narrative increasingly fragmented as documented with historical scholars, but what about Jewish sources?
Jesus said in Matthew 23, obey the Pharises, for they sit in the (Bema) seat of Moses. Do as they say (Paul and Acts 15), don't do as they do (Haredi Ultra-Orthodox Judaism like Hillel and Gamielel) and certainly not any Zealots, for Jesus was not one, yet affirmed the authority of Caesar, so choose your side. In Titus, Pauls calls out fables and the traditions of men. The books of Enoch are in view here, he never quotes them directly. Granted the Enochian Corpus did hold legitimate ideas but must be understood as total fantasy like a Frank Peretti novel, much like all speculative prophetic literature today, fantasy, like C.S Lewis and Tolkein.
Another interpretations of Judaims as the traditions of men is certainly the Shammai and Saducees pushing their political alignments. The same as today with Judaism that rejest the role of Jesus of Nazareth.
Basically the Oral Torah, for us as Hebrews from the nations is to graft into believing Israel (cultivated olive tree) which has always existed even before Abraham with the Anshei HaShem. To go back and argue with Constantian Christianity, German higher critics or modernity fails if one does not search out the old faith. Let us not hold the Christian faith that built its house on the sand through variations of Christianities that do not understand One revelation and One mission of our Lord, who has visited his people many times and does not change with dispensations or marginalize the Pharisee tradition of Gamaliel followed by Paul.
Evangelical Zionist Dispensationalist thought irrationally loves the State of Israel, and Reformed Covenantal streams rationalize the church as true Israel, yet both (as caricatures) seem to have an audacity to tell the oracle keepers who they are. So we may join together and BE the righteous ones in this world by properly understanding our authoritive textual history passed down by the system of oral teaching along with the text seemingly secondary, but for Messianic Hebrews it definitely is not. Inerrancy also means a mathematical miracle, and consonants need a non existing text with verbs, such is explained with ancient orality and the long legitimate Kabbalah tradition and its trail of blood not a Jewish ethnic exaltation.
