Were Jesus and the people of the Galilee region even Jewish?
There is a book that decisively states, with a lot of good reasons, that Jesus was a gentile, the author claims Phoenician, which is a bit of a stretch to conclude, but the point is that there is good evidence Jesus did not follow Jewish law and scripture as a Jew would.
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Phoenician-Karim-El-Koussa/dp/1620065789
Just read this and see what you think about:
http://eli-kittim.tumblr.com/post/106110545257/jesus-is-a-gentile-the-evidence-from-the-gospels
Judaism might have been more of a religion, that people in the region, regardless of their culture. adopted
>>309529
What you first need to understand is that all OG Israelites were indistinguishable from their pagan Canaanite neighbors. The only difference was in religion/culture.
Secondly, they also didn't control nearly as much of the region as the Bible says they did, but for some reason the Romans called the whole thing Judea. I think this kind of gave all the natives within that border the Jewish identity. It's very possible they didn't have the fully codified beliefs their brothers from deeper in Jewish territory had.
>>309539
During the times of King David, they likely did not control as much land as thought. However, before the Romans invaded, the Maccabean and Herodean Kingdom had fairly well-defined borders spanning most of the area.
>>309529
He was a direct descendant of Daniel, the original king of Israel. Of course he was Jewish.
>>309529
They were technically "Jewish," as in they were ethnically Hebrew and believed in the basic tenets, but modern Judaism as an ethnoreligious group didn't develop until the middle ages. It's more accurate to call them proto-Jewish, or simply Hebrew.
>>310070
>Daniel
>>309539
>What you first need to understand is that all OG Israelites were indistinguishable from their pagan Canaanite neighbors. The only difference was in religion/culture.
Well, duh. What other difference do you expect ancient peoples to have from one another?
>>309529
There's basically been no such thing as Jewish since 300BC or so. Jesus was a practicing Jew so i guess that makes him Jewish.
Todays Jews are some inbred eastern European people with central Asian ancestry.
>>311266
Most Jews nowadays come from North Africa and Asia, but thanks for playing.
>>309529
>the point is that there is good evidence Jesus did not follow Jewish law and scripture
sounds like the average Jew
>>311266
Khazar myth is a myth sorry
>>309529
>but the point is that there is good evidence Jesus did not follow Jewish law and scripture as a Jew would.
True, that's why hardly any Jews believed he was the Messiah, but I think the reason he acted that way was mostly out of ignorance.
>Phoenicians even existing in 1 AD
Fucking hell
Did he speak Greek besides aramaic?
