>>12 Bullshit. For one, the term "Jew" originated from referencing people who were citizens of Judah, who were the "good" Israelites that god allowed to survive when he decided to destroy Israel (Along with where the kingdom of David retreated to after Rehoboam's colossal fuck up). Second, the New Testament spends quite a bit of time saying that, yes, the Christian church does originate from the Jewish people and their practices. However, Christ doesn't teach the principles of the pharisees (Which is what Judaism has been for much of the past two millennia, and where it separated itself from the Hewbrew and Jewish beliefs up to that point). That's what the several gospels after Acts are all about. Just read through Romans and all the fun they head with trying to tell them that circumcisions where no longer needed.

The word "Jew" comes from a transliteration of the Greek Ioudaios, which is the word for Judea. It is defined as someone of the Judean nation, or of the culture of Judea, such as being associated with the temple. At the time of Jesus, the word was used for people both of the house of Judah and the Judaized converts. Major early conversions happened during Judah's Babylonian captivity as recorded in Esther 8:17. The Jews in Babylon had married and had children with non-Israelites, but turned them away as was recorded in Ezra 10. This left a significant base of 'Jews' which included all the converts and those that did not return to Judea. Judea began converting when Hycanus conquered Idumea and converted the Edomites which Jospehus recorded in his works Antiquities, 13:324. He also made note in Wars 2:8:2 of the three major sects of Jews: Sadducees, Pharisees, and Essenes, only the isolated Essenes were fully Jews by birth. King Herod himself was an Edomite.

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