Israel and Humanity - The idea of duality in the religious and Gentile in Mosaic tradition

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THE IDEA OF DUALITY IN THE RELIGIOUS AND GENTILE IN MOSAIC TRADITION

This coexistence of two different one single law is, if you will, two forms of worship of a single religion has a precedent in a religious pre-Mosaic and that historical criticism has been reported all sides. Then there was also a double act, a law for everyone and another for the elite, the priests, for the most pious and wisest of the Gentiles. But as it offers an analogy with what later called the Mosaic, which it forms a kind of prelude, all the other different. Is there not evidence that it is not unity but duality, which will continue in the future, albeit in new guises?

The presence of a dual religious law among the Gentiles and the resemblance of this phenomenon with the future constitution of the Mosaic are themselves quite instructive. The differences we see between the two laws are not less, they seem to consistently show the simultaneous existence of a rule and secular rule in the priesthood of humanity, which is still better then appears in relationship between law Noachide and the Mosaic law, or in the Mosaic itself. Here indeed we find alongside the common law of the Israelites, especially those competing tribe of Levi and Aaron's family and even in these special law which was submitted to the High Priest and that distinguished other priests of Israel, as in turn the whole Mosaic distinguished the Israelites, priests do humanity.

An exact match if, symmetry, harmony so complete can not be coincidence, it is indeed a concept as deep as thoughtful and consistently dominates the whole religious edifice according to Judaism since its foundation until the highest peak. That is what is true in the opinion of those who see Judaism as a religion purely national. Mosaic is the only one they are considering is to say a particular aspect of true religion and not much more for all mankind, all races, at all latitudes that rules for priests in Israel were all Israelites, nor those of the high priest to the whole tribe of Levi.