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about 95% of “jews” today are rabbinic jews.
the remaining 5% are karaite jews (whom rabbinical Jews don’t really consider to be jews because they don’t apply the talmud/mishnah.)
so when someone says “jew” today, they are referring to rabbinic jews & they don’t even know it.
there was no such thing as formalized rabbinic judaism until almost 100-200 years after Jesus died.
therefore, Jesus could not have possibly been a “jew”, as we apply the term now. debate me.
“bUT TPAS The Bible RefERs tO Jesus aS ‘Rabbi’!”
sure, in your ESV Bible it says they called him “rabbi”. but in first-century Judea, “rabbi” was not yet a formal office/title the way it later became in rabbinic judaism (after 70 CE). “Rabbi” was an Aramaic term used as general title of respect, akin to saying “teacher,” or “master.”
so no, Jesus was not a “rabbi” as we know them now. debate me.
the term “jew” was invented in the 13th century to take away from the fact that the actual “jews” of Jesus’ time were just Judeans (inhabitants of Judea) who worshipped the God of Israel through a regional culture & system of beliefs/rules based on the OT/Tanakh.
sure, there were practitioners of this faith outside of geographical Judea “proper”: even then, they were still referred to as Judeans based on their beliefs.
it wasn’t a formal religion. it was a complete way of living. it did not have a name, like “Christianity” or “Hinduism”. it certainly wasn’t “judaism”. debate me.
as far as we can tell, it was a faith/lifestyle without a name. Hebrew was the written language used in the Tanakh, but the “faith” itself was nameless.
the pharisees (whom Jesus despised) went on to found modern day “judaism”, driven more so by kabbalistic & talmudic principles, merely using the Torah as a historical bludgeon to justify their ends.
the term “star of david” was made up, and nobody actually knows where it came from.
Jesus was an inhabitant of Judea, who observed the Judeans’ religious & cultural practices of his time.
Jesus was not a rabbinic jew.
debate me.
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