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>Jewish commentary on the Torah existed long before the time of Jesus
It's true, even Jesus refers to the steps allowed on the Sabbath, and that's from the Talmud, and at the same time the early Christians were already wandering around Canaan. I suppose you know about the Scenios?
They emerged at the same time as the commentaries on the Torah. One ended up in Christianity, the other in Rabbinism, both separated from the temple.
>the Essenes.
>Jewish sect that lived in separate communities, best known for their settlement at Qumran, near the Dead Sea. They were characterized by their ascetic lifestyle, emphasis on ritual purity, practice of frequent baptisms, rejection of the Hasmonean government and the functioning of the Temple in Jerusalem, and a dualistic view of the world (light vs. darkness). The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in the caves of Qumran, are works attributed to this community.
They were the ones who created the idea of Belial (Satan) as Christians understand it.
>framing Judaism as being solely reliant on sacrifices so they can claim they had the final one.
On the contrary, Christianity takes a totally different course, one that reinterprets the Torah within a moral framework that never existed in the first place.
The only part that Christianity takes into account when it comes to sacrifices is the white lamb of atonement, a real ritual, and in fact the only form according to the Torah for sins to be forgiven.
>No, that is YOUR highest interpretation of what I was trying to communicate.
If Judaism is a completely autonomous religion, justify it without using Greek philosophy (aka the monad you like to quote so much).