
Judaism -- What Is It and Where Did It Come From?
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
The Prototypical Example of Jewish Conversion
People in the larger ancient mediterranean and near eastern world thought, that you need a collective to belong to. You need laws and government protecting you, and you need a god to be devoted to to protect you. The jews seem to have been, at this time, a different species, but not a different genus. They were more or less parallel in these ways to other ancient peoples. So if we want to understand what the jews were and where they came from, we have to see te as one of these ancient collectives. Cult and worship of the jewish god was just one aspect of their distinguishing laws and customs. In the same way you could say the cult of at
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