Noahide Laws

The Arc-en-ciel is the classic symbol of the Noahide movement, recalling the rainbow appeared in the heavens after the Flood Biblical

The Seven Laws of Noah ( Hebrew : - ), often referred as the Noahide Laws are a list of seven moral imperatives which have been given, according to Jewish tradition, by God to Noah as an everlasting covenant with the whole of humanity.

Chapter VII of the Book of Jubilees , verse 21, Noah "required his children to do justice, to cover the shame of their bodies, to bless their Creator, to honor father and mother, to love every man his neighbor, to refrain from fornication, impurity and violence. "The editors of Writings intertestamental (Pleiade) state (note 20):" the concept of Noahide commandments is common to the Essenes and the Pharisees , but their number and their list seems to have changed. "

Judeo-Christianity

In Acts , Luke says that at the Council of Jerusalem , under the chairmanship of Jacques and in the presence of Peter, they agreed to impose the Gentiles who convert to the religion of Jesus (who was not named yet Christianity), bonds which gives the list three times ( Acts. 15, 20.29, 21, 25 ):

• abstain from food sacrificed to idols (compare Noachide third law:
• abstain from fornication (compare the fourth Noachide Law: that is to say, incest)
• abstaining from things strangled, that is to say non-bled meat (look for the latest law Noachide, whose formulation rabbinic, however, does not exactly: ,
• abstain from blood (compare the fifth Noachide law,

The First Corinthians alludes to the first two ( I Co., 5 1 : referring to the incest taboo, Co. I, 8, 1 allusion to the forbidden meat offered to idols), but also to Noachide first law (obligation to respect a court, v. 6 Co. I, 1-10 ) and sixth v. I, Co. 6, 10 ) on the second it could be heard in other Pauline passages, like the Romans , 2, 24. ^{Rabbinic Judaism}

The current Jewish tradition, which is mainly based on Gen. 2, 24, 9, 4-6 and Lev. 17-18; 24, 16 , reads mainly in baraitha (II ^century AD) of the Babylonian Talmud ( Sanhedrin 56a), also alluded to the Tosefta (Avodah Zara, IX). It lists:

List of the seven traditional laws Noachides

Commands

• to establish courts,
• the prohibition of blasphemy,
• the prohibition of idolatry ,
• the prohibition of illicit unions ,
• the prohibition of murder;
• the prohibition of theft ,
• the prohibition against eating flesh torn from a living animal.

According to Judaism any non-Jew living in accordance with these seven laws is regarded as a Righteous Gentile and, by the observance of these laws, its share in world to come . The members of these laws are often called B'nei Noah (Children of Noah) or Noahide, and can often find themselves in synagogues Jewish.

Noahide laws were, according to rabbinical tradition, preceded by the Six Laws of Adam, given to Adam by God in the Garden of Eden . During the revelation at Sinai, the seven laws were followed by the Ten Commandments. The 613 mitzvot contained in the written Torah and their elaborations in the oral Torah (although this number of 613 probably dates itself to a rabbinic teaching) that are binding only for the Jews, having inherited requirements their ancestors, who received the "yoke of the commandments" of their own volition.

It noted however that the Noahide laws are found in the 613 commandments mosaics, and even the Decalogue itself, for the prohibitions of blasphemy, idolatry, murder and theft.

Christianity

From the perspective of the rabbinic tradition strictly, the Trinitarian Christians such as Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants do not have the Noahide laws, the Holy Trinity being equated with polytheism. Conversely, smaller religious groups like Christians Christadelphians , and Unitarians are recognized by the Jewish authorities as monotheistic. ^References

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