[William Terrell]

I think what he's saying is that 3000 years ago was long before Israel broke up into the two kingdoms and were shuffled off to their respective spankings by the Assyrians and Nebuchadnezzar. There doesn't seem to be the moniker "Jew" until after that time.

[Inyokern]

I think what he's saying is that 3000 years ago was long before Israel broke up into the two kingdoms and were shuffled off to their respective spankings by the Assyrians and Nebuchadnezzar. There doesn't seem to be the moniker "Jew" until after that time.

As I stated in another thread, this is meaningless. The word Jew is an English word that came into existence hundreds of years after the fact. In the Hebrew language, there is no distinction between Jews and members of the Tribe of Judah. In the Hebrew language, the "Jews" (Yehudim) came into existence with the birth of Judah, the son of Jacob.