the talmud is commentaries on the torah.. of course they follow the talmud, but all you christians who say they ONLY follow the talmud are being purposefully ignorant so you can maintain your brainwashing and defend your jewish god as 'yours' and not 'theirs'. all of their goals and prophecies which they are presently enacting come from the TORAH, you can't just fucking ignore it and pretend it's not a problematic book. why you would want to claim it is beyond me, i see so many of you insult jews based on things from the torah (all nations will borrow from you, but you will borrow from none, etc.), but then you try to claim it's your book as though all those disgusting and immoral practices are perfectly okay so long as it's you who's benefitting from it...
The old testament predates the Torah though.
It predates the Talmud.
The Torah are the 5 books of Moses, the histories, and the prophesies given before Christ.
The Talmud is a collection of hyperlegalistic arguments between rabis that was written after the Torah. It's effectively a product of rabis reading into the Torah what they want and reading out of it what they want. The primary purpose was to give power to the rabis through legalist interpretation and to conjure arguments they could use to selectively apply the Torah. This is exactly what Christ criticized them for in the gospels.
It predates the Torah.
The writings in the old testament / Jewish Bible are ancient and taken from many cultures and a lot more than five authors.
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