Building the Bible

The First and Second Centuries C.E.

With a population spread over many countries, how did the Jewish people retain their religion and culture?

A small group of rabbis, or teachers, set about to shift the focus of Jewish worship from the temple to the Torah. They did this by deciding on a canon for the Tanakh, or Hebrew Scriptures, and by organizing the lengthy oral law into a systematic, written form.

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