I want to welcome everyone back to part four of my reading of Jewish history, Jewish religion,

the weight of 3,000 years by Israel Shahak.

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This is, I think I said last time that this was a long,

the last chapter was a longer chapter

and I might split it up.

This one is already split up, but this is a long chapter. I'm gonna split it up. This one is already split up, but this is a long chapter. I'm going to split it up. I'm going to stop it on a what might be called a cliffhanger. But all right let's get to this chapter four the weight of history a great deal of nonsense has been written in the attempt to provide a social or mystical interpretation of Jewry or Judaism as a whole.

This cannot be done for the social structure of the Jewish people and the ideological structure of Judaism have changed

profoundly through the ages. Four major phases can be distinguished.

One, the phase of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah until the destruction of the First

Temple 587 BC and the Babylonian exile.

Much of the Old Testament is concerned with this period, although most major books of the Old

Testament, including the Pentatuke, as we know it, were actually composed after that date.

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