RE: Bible says convert or kill the nonbelievers too. Thumbs down for Christianity...
December 30, 2015 at 12:34 am
(December 29, 2015 at 11:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Hey, asswipe. The word "Yehud" originally referred to a region not an ethnic group. They were ethnically all fucking Canaanites. The "Jews" were a political creation of the Persian empire. And as far as not converting to it....tell it to the Hasmonean kings at the end of the first century. They'd gladly take a piece of your dick off.
From your own source.
(December 27, 2015 at 4:30 pm)Minimalist Wrote:*Emphasis mine*Quote:(Speaking of the Babylonian "Exile" and alleged "return," Finkelstein writes:
This is also the moment in history when we must change our terminology. The kingdom of Judah becomes Yehud - the Aramaic name of the province in the Persian Empire. - and the people of Judah, the Judahites, will henceforth be known as Yehudim, or Jews.
The Bible Unearthed - Page 297
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_group
Quote:An ethnic group or ethnicity is a category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or national experience. Unlike most other social groups, ethnicity is primarily an inherited status. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language and/or dialect, symbolic systems such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing style, art, and physical appearance.
Canaanites were polytheistic, Israelites\Jews have ALWAYS been monotheistic, so I don't know how you figure the Jews were formerly Canaanites.
