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→Botticini and Eckstein on Jewish intellectual achievements
=== Botticini and Eckstein on Jewish intellectual achievements ===
=== Botticini and Eckstein on Jewish intellectual achievements ===
Rabbi Ismar Schorsch said relating to the history of the Jews: "The primacy of the [[Torah]] required literacy and learning of everyone. Henceforth, leadership would be determined by study rather than birth."<ref>[http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/torah-like-water/ Torah like Water] by Rabbi Ismar Schorsch</ref>
Rabbi Ismar Schorsch said relating to the history of the Jews: "The primacy of the [[Torah]] required literacy and learning of everyone. Henceforth, leadership would be determined by study rather than birth."<ref>[http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/torah-like-water/ Torah like Water] by Rabbi Ismar Schorsch</ref>
According to Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein:
According to Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein:
{{Cquote|...in the world of almost universal illiteracy back 2,000 years, the Jewish religious leadership — the rabbis and scholars in the academies in Judea and Galilee — required each Jewish individual, child or adult, rich or poor, farmer or merchant, to learn to read and study the Torah. Instead of restricting learning, study and knowledge to a small elite, the Jewish religious leadership of that time went exactly in the opposite direction: it pushed Judaism toward making literacy, education and knowledge universal among all Jews. Centuries later, this apparently odd choice of a religious norm became the lever of the economic prosperity and intellectual achievements of the Jews.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/jewish-literacy-as-the-road-to/ Jewish Literacy as the Road to Riches: The Chosen Path of the ‘Chosen Few], PBS</ref>}}
{{Cquote|...in the world of almost universal illiteracy back 2,000 years, the Jewish religious leadership — the rabbis and scholars in the academies in Judea and Galilee — required each Jewish individual, child or adult, rich or poor, farmer or merchant, to learn to read and study the Torah. Instead of restricting learning, study and knowledge to a small elite, the Jewish religious leadership of that time went exactly in the opposite direction: it pushed Judaism toward making literacy, education and knowledge universal among all Jews. Centuries later, this apparently odd choice of a religious norm became the lever of the economic prosperity and intellectual achievements of the Jews.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/jewish-literacy-as-the-road-to/ Jewish Literacy as the Road to Riches: The Chosen Path of the ‘Chosen Few], PBS</ref>}}
[[File:Prophet Moses.jpg|thumb|200px|center|The prophet Moses wrote the [[Torah]] which is the first five books of the Bible. Moses was a [[creationism|creationist]]. ]]
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== See also ==
== See also ==