Hally McIlrath wrote:One ought to be very careful with any Midrashic texts as, I think you will agree, much of the body of what was written was after the world had fallen into "the Great Apostasy..."
Yeah, but they're fun anyways. Without this stuff we wouldn't have things like Lilith and the legend of the golem.
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One ought to be very careful with any Midrashic texts as, I think you will agree, much of the body of what was written was after the world had fallen into "the Great Apostasy..."
Yes, but both the Old Testament and New Testament went through precisely the same meat grinder, in different times and under different cultural conditions. The Midrrashic texts preserve, as do the Intertestimental literature and the Qumran scrolls, concepts and ideas from the pre-exhilic Judaism that the Deuteronomist redactors substantially edited from the Old Testament corpus.
The Nag Hammadi and Bruce Codex material, for another example, preserve teachings and concepts lost to post Apostolic Christianity but, even in bastardized form, are quite recognizable to Latter Day Saints.
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