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One unaware with the ways of Rabbinic judaism would be stunned by the Rabbinic literature. In this culture, the power of the to form the law comes before the people, the Bible, and God's word. The Rabbi is the sole determining factor in deci ....

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... Akiba can decipher their meaning later. Moses the writer of the document is then taken to Akiba's classroom and shown the sophistication that the Rabbis have when they interperit the Bible. Moses is put in the back of the class witht the new students as a symbol that he is not the master of the Bible. Moses was the writer. He had no say in what it meant or contained. Rather he was the first to interpret the words of God and write them. The fact that God put in the Bible, obscure text for future Rabbis is a symbol that he expected them to pick apart at even the most minute pieces of grammar. The Rabbis are expected to find what is nec ...