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3. Dogma and Heresy | Dr. Marc Shapiro

The Podcast of Jewish Ideas

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The Importance of Beliefs in the Islamic World

Historians generally hate to be asked a counterfactual question. Were Jews not living in those lands, would they have built the frameworks of dogma? This doesn't mean that people in medieval Ashkenaz did not think certain beliefs were what defines Jews and what's important for Jews to believe. The Barbaneo, Marsha, Shonalu,. Shonalu, and others saw the novelty in the building of dogmatic systems. And they explained it as a response to what Jews needed in the Islamic world.

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