oh my complaint is against using words in scholarship which are taken from religious traditions and then reading back our anthropological assumptions about these terms as if the tradition is all about our reductions. And also, if physics has no biblical basis does that mean we shouldnt meddle with it? The materials that discuss halakhah hold to a theory of dual revelations-- one oral, one in writing. Then you can try to reconcile them. But even the written one is considered to require specialized reading that goes beyond the scope of our discussion here. But we also have to realize that the talmud reports some cases where halakhah (yes that is the word) "uproots" scripture. I once wrote an article about that but the Messianic Jews then went ahead and wrote stuff on the web that totally misrepresented my points and quoted me so I do not like to discuss such matters in open forums.
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