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D'varim 13 demands that Israeli(te) cities practice Judaism, but does not extend that to any other region. Proselytizing to non-Jews (historically, non-Israelis
by reissbaker 4y ago
D'varim 13 demands that Israeli(te) cities practice Judaism, but does not extend that to any other region. Proselytizing to non-Jews (historically, non-Israelis) is explicitly banned in Judaism.
- 29athrowaway 4y agoInteresting. Thanks for that clarification
- bjourne 4y agoBefore the Talmudic era Jewish proselytes were common. The practice was adopted and "refined" by Christian Jews but not taken up by Rabbinic Judaism.
- 29athrowaway 4y agoDisputes over which god is the supreme or only god in that region go all the way back to this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_(deity) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_(deity)
- reissbaker 4y agoHeh, that guy even made his way into Judaism! Since Judaism is the closest surviving descendant of the ancient Canaanite religion (and the language we call "Hebrew" is simply a Canaanite dialect, mutually intelligible with the other Canaanite dialects that have since died out). We merged him into Yahweh, the original god of Judea; others were merged in too, e.g. El's original consort Asherah became the "Shekhinah" (feminine presence of Yahweh) and also "Shabbat Ha'malka" (the vaguely-mystical but uh, totally not a deity, yup, uh-huh, figure called the "Queen of the Sabbath").