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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: A potpourri of comments
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Date: Fri, 30-Mar-84 20:44:15 EST
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	From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
	Newsgroups: net.religion
	Subject: A potpourri of comments
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	Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 19:54:36 EST

	Especially when Christianity is the only belief system I know of
	wherein love--love as defined, say, in I Corinthians 13, love that really
	considers the other person's good important--is so central (though there are
	glimpses of the same thing here and there in the Hebrew Scriptures).

I've said this before and I'll say it again:  if you're going to comment
about Judaism (either directly or by allusion), you *must* refer to not
just the Tanach (a.k.a. the Old Testament), but also the Talmud and several
thousand years of rabbinic expositions and interpretations.  Doing anything
less is like trying to understand the U.S. political system by reading just
the Constitution, and ignoring legislation, court decisions, administrative
regulations, etc.