From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" 
Subject: RE: (urth) Scylla, Oreb and transmigrational chain yanking
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:27:46 -0700

Alga wrote:

> Your chain was not being yanked. That was a completely serious post, in
> which I tried to identify Matthew (whom I consider an interesting and
> imaginative nut-case, which may bring out your humourless Baptist
> feelings--rising to the bait) as a hard-line resurectionist going
> against the at-the-time and still orthodox  Jewish majority feeling
> that this was/is a somewhat ridiculous position.

H'mmmm. Well:

First of all, the Pharisees essentially won -- if you look at modern
Orthodox-with-a-capital-O Jewish practice, it's almost entirely 
descended from the practices of the Pharisaical party. I believe that 
Orthodox Judaism today takes no official position on "what happens
after death," but I'm not sure -- I'd have to do some research in 
books that I don't keep here at work (for some reason).

--Blattid


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