Sharing the paarsurrey Post #205 at RF
Why Jesus must be the Messiah | Hellenist Christ v Jewish Messiah* (earthly, political, delivers from oppression) v Israelite Messiah , all different concepts?
“Hellenistic Judaism was a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Greek culture. Until the early Muslim conquests of the eastern Mediterranean, the main centers of Hellenistic Judaism were Alexandria in Egypt and Antioch in Syria (now in southern Turkey), the two main Greek urban settlements of the Middle East and North Africa region, both founded in the end of the fourth century BCE in the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great. Hellenistic Judaism also existed in Jerusalem during the Second Temple Period, where there was a conflict between Hellenizers and traditionalists.”
“The Hebrews were Jewish Christians who spoke almost exclusively Aramaic, and the Hellenists were also Jewish Christians whose mother tongue was Greek. They were Greek-speaking Jews from the Diaspora who settled in Jerusalem. Luke uses the term “Greeks” to identify them. Hellenistai.”
Hellenistic Judaism – Wikipedia
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Hellenisation is the process of…
