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The idea is that the cult that became Judaism has a shared history with Vedic, or pre-Vedic, religions. Not that ancient Israelites actually believed in that r
by edgyquant 4y ago
The idea is that the cult that became Judaism has a shared history with Vedic, or pre-Vedic, religions. Not that ancient Israelites actually believed in that religion.
- Calavar 4y agoI think what they're getting at is that as best we know, Vedic religions came to India with the Indo-Aryan migration. So the pre-Vedic religions of the Indus Valley Civilization are unlikely to have had any notion of a Vedic concept like brahman.
- ncmncm 4y agoRight. There is basically no possibility at all that IVC was Vedic. Vedic was pastoral and martial, IVC sedentary, farming, and wholly non-martial. BTW, "IVC" is problematic, because it extended hundreds of km east well across the subcontinent. The Hindi majority in that part of its range would prefer it not.
- selimthegrim 4y agoWhy not, don’t they want to claim it?
- ncmncm 4y agoOnly if they could make it Vedic.