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MrBaptist on scored.co
1 year ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)
The jews are "jews", but only in the geographical sense - Judaeans from the Roman province of Judaea, not the genetic tribe of Judah. We know from history that Edomites and other accursed races were absorbed into Judaea about a century before the time of Christ (through forced "conversion" etc.) - this lines up with their descendants having Canaanite DNA.
It's a mistake to read "jew" in your Bible and think this automatically means "Israelite", just like "American" doesn't mean "White".
Archaeology and history are not hard science; it's subject to politics and muh racisms just like everything else, and this determines what interpretations are publicly acceptable, even if that means picking the least plausible explanation (as with this We Wuz Izraelitez example).
Conveniently, many non-White cultures have taboos about disturbing the dead, so it can be offensive to use modern tech to definitively prove that these ancient remains really are are the ancestors of whoever happens to live there more recently.
This is doubly true when artifacts from thousands of years ago are suspiciously superior by far to anything made by their "descendants" many centuries later.
It's a mistake to read "jew" in your Bible and think this automatically means "Israelite", just like "American" doesn't mean "White".
Archaeology and history are not hard science; it's subject to politics and muh racisms just like everything else, and this determines what interpretations are publicly acceptable, even if that means picking the least plausible explanation (as with this We Wuz Izraelitez example).
Conveniently, many non-White cultures have taboos about disturbing the dead, so it can be offensive to use modern tech to definitively prove that these ancient remains really are are the ancestors of whoever happens to live there more recently.
This is doubly true when artifacts from thousands of years ago are suspiciously superior by far to anything made by their "descendants" many centuries later.