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alexseanchai) wrote2016-10-15 02:33 pm
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Attn: Jewish folks who read my journal! I have a favor to ask. Specifically, I have the impression that the "Judeo-" prefix in the italicized sentence to follow is somewhere from misleading to actively wrong. I wish one or two people with active familiarity with Judaism to confirm or deny this.
Haides should not be confused with the Judeo-Christian figure of Satan, for Haides is neither wicked nor a tempter.
(The problem is I really have no idea how much of the whole Satan/Lucifer/etc concept is derived from the Tanakh et al and Jewish thought and how much from the Old and New Testaments and Milton, Dante, et al and Christian thought. I know the Book of Job is pertinent, but that doesn't, like, help. And I do not want this project I'm on to misrepresent anybody.)
Thanks!
ETA: All answered, thank you!
Haides should not be confused with the Judeo-Christian figure of Satan, for Haides is neither wicked nor a tempter.
(The problem is I really have no idea how much of the whole Satan/Lucifer/etc concept is derived from the Tanakh et al and Jewish thought and how much from the Old and New Testaments and Milton, Dante, et al and Christian thought. I know the Book of Job is pertinent, but that doesn't, like, help. And I do not want this project I'm on to misrepresent anybody.)
Thanks!
ETA: All answered, thank you!
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Which doesn't particularly help answer your question, when I say "that just means Christian" *shrug* Looking forward to other comments.
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*nod* Thanks.
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Thank you!
Go rest :)
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Judeo-Christian may be meant by some Christians to indicate the historical roots of Christianity, but it also makes a claim that Judaism and modern Christianity are currently connected, and a lot of Jews don't like the term in any context.
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Gotcha. Thank you!
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Wait, I'm a dingbat. *grabs Hebrew-English dictionary* well, that's not useful, it's not in there. I recall the snake in the Garden of Eden being described as the satan, but it's not a proper noun?
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I think the snake isn't actually described that way, because I seem to recall that that's a later interpolation by Christians, but I could be wrong.
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"Judeo-Christian" is a phrase I've learned to live with. I don't find it very helpful though: there's a lot of very real differences that people who are Christian don't seem to care to understand.
I've never heard a Jew use that phrase.
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Okay. So what I want to do is convince the team to take that phrase out of the thing we're editing. Thank you!
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Indeed. :)
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(Also co-sign to the responses to your initial worry about Satan,
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:)