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To: DensaMensa
I don't distinguish between Arabaham and the Jews. If you do, the conversation is superficial and hopeless. "Nowhere" in deed.

"Jews" were first called such by Cyrus, the Persian emperor who conquered Babylon in 538 BCE. Changing a name is hardly relevant to who the people are, what their culture is, or anything else. To say there were no "Jews" before they were called Jews is ridiculous.

You sound like just another person who is offended by Jewish people. This is always difficult to reason with.

The Chinese of the Late Bronze Age did not have sacred texts, to the best of my knowledge. However "civilized" you want to consider them, they do not meet the criteria of a unified religion, sacred text, and continuity thereupon. This is the criteria I set.
6 posted on 06/07/2003 8:55:24 PM PDT by Bad Eagle
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To: Bad Eagle
}I don't distinguish between Arabaham and the Jews. If you do, the conversation is superficial and hopeless.

Indeed, if you are incapeable or unwilling to make the fundamental and elementary historic distinctions between Hebrews, Israelites and Jews there is really nothing furthur to discuss.

7 posted on 06/07/2003 9:04:55 PM PDT by DensaMensa (He who controls the definitions controls History. He who controls History controls the future.)
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