'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

[Drifter]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

Now that you mention it quite possibly. I wanted a geographic location to mimic the Babylon and Jerusalem editions.

You could go with an area on Terra with a large Jewish population. Isreal, the U.S., France and Canada have large populations today, and likely for centuries to come. The U.K., Russia nd Argentina have good sized populations too. Even with the formation of the Terran Confederation and blurring of the tradtional nation-state, I can't see serious religious matters not taking place outside of the Isreal area, at least for the pre-Rule era. "Second Jerusalem Talmud" could be an option.

A colony world with a Jewish population early in IW period, Nusku and Prometheus come to mind since they are very early colonies, but any one of a hundred worlds are just as likely.

I would agree that this issue would have to be handled 'early' in the Traveller timeline, but I would put a real resolution late in the IW era, and maybe even sometime into the Rule of Man. The issues would have to come up, for one thing, then various religious authorities would have to make rulings, and counter-rulings, and when enough of a body of work has been amassed. This could easily take centuries.

Or soemthing along the lines of 'the Stellar Talmud". Ko-khav means star (googled hebrew dictionaries), so maybe Ko-khav Talmud, but that is very likely bad grammar. Per wikipedia Talmud de-Eretz Yisrael means the Talmud of the Land of Isreal, the proper naem for the Jerusalem Talmud. So maybe something like Talmud de-Ko-khav, or Talmud de-Sha-ma-yeem (Talmud of the Sky) would be more proper.

Great idea, btw.