Social Order Texts

Sacred Days and Seasons 154. Sabbath Rest --- Exodus 20:8-11 155. Covenanters' Sabbath Rules --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Damascus Covenant (CD) 10.17-23 156. Covenanters: No Aid for Animals --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Damascus Covenant (CD) 11.13-14 157. Rabbinic Definition of Work --- Mishna, Shabbath 7.2 158. Postponing the Sabbath --- Mishna, Shabbath 19.1 159. Rabbis: Feed Animals --- Babylonian Talmud, Shabbath 128a 160. Plucking Grain on Sabbath --- Babylonian Talmud, Shabbath 128a 161. Childbirth on the Sabbath ---- Mishna, Shabbath 18.2 162. Life-saving on the Sabbath --- Babylonian Talmud, Shabbath 132a 163. Healing on the Sabbath --- Mishna, Shabbath 22.6 164. Pain on the Sabbath ---- Mishna, Shabbath 14.4 165. Covenanters Imprison Sabbath Violators -- Dead Sea Scrolls, Damascus Covenant (CD) 12.3-6 166. Daily Sacrifice & Passover --- Mishna, Pesachim 5.1 167. The Passover Sacrifice --- Mishna, Pesachim 5.5-7 168. Passover Meal --- Mishna, Pesachim 10.1 Sin & Justice 169. Atonement for Sins --- Mishna, Yoma 8.9 170. Life or Death? --- Babylonian Talmud, Shabbath 32a 171. Composition of a Court --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 1.6 172. Cases for the Supreme Court --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 1.5 173. Capital & Non-capital Cases --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 4.1 174. Court Protocol --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 4.3 175. Warning to Witnesses --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 4.5 176. Offenders Sentenced to Stoning --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 7.4 177. What constitutes Blasphemy? --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 7.5 178. Sabbath Violators Stoned ---- Mishna, Sanhedrin 7.8 179. Hidden Witnesses --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 7.10 180. Prelude to Stoning --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 6.1-2 181. Stoning & Hanging --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 6.4 182. Parable of the Twins --- Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 46b 183. Death by Strangulation --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 11.1 184. The Rebellious Elder --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 11.4 185. The False Prophet --- Mishna, Sanhedrin 11.5-6 186. Executions Suspended --- Babylonian Talmud, Shabbath 37b Jesus & Christians 187. Testimonium Flavianum --- Josephus, Antiquities 18.63-64 188. Jews Expelled from Rome --- Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars 5.25 189. Nero Persecutes Christians in Rome --- Tacitus, Annals 15.44 190. A Rabbinic View of Jesus' Execution --- Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 43a 191. Jesus' Age --- Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 106b 192. Eliezer's Lament --- Mishnah, Sota 9.15 193. A Rabbi Arrested for 'Heresy' --- Babylonian Talmud, Aboda Zara 16b-17a 194. Healing in Jesus' Name Forbidden --- Tosefta, cHullin 2.22-23

Read More about Social Order Texts