Minim (Judaism)
Minim (from the Hebrew: "sects" (plural form of "Minuth" = sect)) applied until the second century Jewish context as heretics or heretics . Talmudic literature in particular warned against minim , because it would render idolatry and break the law and thus oppose the halacha . The term was used against theological opponents, but never referred to Jewish Christians or Christians .
The Mishnah of rabbinic Judaism in Halacha to the Teshuva (Aramaic: תשובה) states that five types of the minim can be identified:
- The one who denies the existence of God
- the one who claims that there are at least two gods,
- the one who does not deny that there is a God but sees him in physical form,
- the one who denies that God is the unique as well
- the one who sees someone between himself and the everlasting God.
literature
- Julius Hans Schoeps (Ed.): New Lexicon of Judaism. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1998, ISBN 3-577-10604-2 .
- Pieter Willem van der Horst, Hellenism, Judaism, Christianity : essays on their interaction - page 113 - 1998