The Jews have NEVER been a race.
Jews WERE a people,a cultural and religious group. They WERE '"Semites" a broad term which also includes Arab peoples.
The term 'Abrahamic' is used to refer to Judaisms ,Christianity and Islam.
In the main this is because all three faiths worship the same one God. In Biblical tradition ,Abraham is LITERALLY the father of both Jews and Arabs;Jews through his son Isaac from Sarah his wife and Arabs through Ishmael, from "Hagar the Egyptian" ,his slave.
Converts have always been admitted,which has allowed a lot of intermarriage over centuries. Add that to the diaspora over centuries and you get groups as disparate as the Ashkenazi and the Sephardi.
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Jews WERE a people,a cultural and religious group. They WERE '"Semites" a broad term which also includes Arab peoples.
The term 'Abrahamic' is used to refer to Judaisms ,Christianity and Islam.
In the main this is because all three faiths worship the same one God. In Biblical tradition ,Abraham is LITERALLY the father of both Jews and Arabs;Jews through his son Isaac from Sarah his wife and Arabs through Ishmael, from "Hagar the Egyptian" ,his slave.
Quote:The term Semite means a member of any of various ancient and modern people originating in southwestern Asia, including Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Arabs, and Ethiopian Semites. It was proposed at first to refer to the languages related to Hebrew by Ludwig Schlözer, in Eichhorn's "Repertorium", vol. VIII (Leipzig, 1781), p. 161. Through Eichhorn the name then came into general usage (cf. his "Einleitung in das Alte Testament" (Leipzig, 1787), I, p. 45). In his "Gesch. der neuen Sprachenkunde", pt. I (Göttingen, 1807) it had already become a fixed technical term.[1]
Converts have always been admitted,which has allowed a lot of intermarriage over centuries. Add that to the diaspora over centuries and you get groups as disparate as the Ashkenazi and the Sephardi.
Quote:Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim (Hebrew: אַשְׁכֲּנָזִים, pronounced [ˌaʃkəˈnazim], singular. [ˌaʃkəˈnazi]; also יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכֲּנָז, Yehudei Ashkenaz, "the Jews of Ashkenaz"), are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland in the west of Germany. Ashkenaz is the medieval Hebrew name for the region which in modern times encompasses the country of Germany and German-speaking borderland areas. Ashkenaz is also a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10). Thus, Ashkenazim or Ashkenazi Jews are literally "German Jews."
Quote:Sephardi Jews (Hebrew: ספרדי, Standard Səfardi Tiberian Səp̄arədî; plural ספרדים, Standard Səfaradim Tiberian Səp̄arədîm; Spanish Sefardíes; Portuguese Sefarditas, Greek Σεφάρδοι, Turkish Sefarad, Judaeo-Spanish Sefardies) are a subgroup of Jews originating in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, usually defined in contrast to Ashkenazi or Mizrahi Jews.
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