Talmudic Sanhedrin Influences of Arabic Thought

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), May 12, 2021 at 11:54

DNM, you never cease to intrigue this observer; just when it was thought there were no more twists to the thought processes of how the Middle East was influenced to become the powder keg of religious ideologies, then there is this.
The Talmud, for this one who is still a neophyte in translation philology and Aramaic/Syriac (let alone Arabic) etymology, is yet another mysterious source of Judaic thought for this reader, including the curiosity of the potential differences between the Babylonian (supposedly recently translated to modern Hebrew by a scholar recently now past) and this Sanhedrin you have mentioned. How do they compare; and how much was that inferred by Persian Jewish Talmudic influences. Which would have been considered more influential in the return to Israel and the second Temple construction during those
times.
When Islam hundreds of years later attempted to appropriate those Jewish thoughts in order to become the replacement religion, by your revelation it is Persian thinking and not Arabic: what do the thinkers of that thought process think they can enforce without proper basis of education? Thanks again, DNM; this is great.

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