Sects of Judaism

Sects of Judaism: "dentifying the Historical Trunk

Working chronologically, I began with the Orthodox. About two thousand years before the Reform and Conservative movements arrived on the scene, Orthodox sages recorded the claim that the oral tradition was received from G-d at Sinai in 1312 B.C.E. and passed down intact to the sages of the Mishna.[1]Later talmudic texts affirm belief in a G-d-given oral tradition [2], as do the writings of medieval and post-medieval Orthodox scholars.[3] "