The Importance of Being a Jew

There was a lot of pressure internally from these people to not do this. Once you become Hellenized no matter if you're at worst still worship in Yahweh or your worship Apollo You're just not you're not a real Jew anymore. They had a massive diaspora which and it was unusually large for the ancient world. It's funny that I have in my notes here. I wrote Uh, do we think israel is more interesting in this time period because with hindsight We know it's the main character in this story or is it just objectively more pivotal In the first century BC first century AD then spain was or whatever.