From Ancient to Modern Judaism

Here are my blog entries addressing the development of Modern Judaism from its roots in the intellectual, political, and spiritual currents of Second Temple Judaism:

• Modern Identity Creates Ancient Origins [Discusses the relationships between modern identities and beliefs about origins in a comparison of Sudanese African Arabs and E. European ethnic Ashkenazi Jews]
• The Origins of Modern Jewry [Greco-Roman Judea to Seventeenth Century + Genetic Anthropology]
• Les origines des juifs actuels [Same, more supporting material in French]
• Followup: Origins of Modern Jewry [Shlomo Sand's material]
• Followup (II): Origins of Modern Jewry [Putting Sand's theory in perspective]
• An Earlier ADL/Foxman Debacle [Jews, Christianity and 2nd Temple Judaism]
• Let the Exiles Return Home! [Archeology of Jews]
• Jewish History: Facts versus Delusions [Caveats about Jewish Studies]
• The Lies of Yiddish Studies [More Caveats about Jewish Studies]
• Pre-State Zionism [From ancient Israel to the State of Israel]
• Re: SHK 18.0581 Redheads [Jewishness versus 2nd Temple Judaism]
• Attacking Shohat: Falsifying Jewish History [Jewish Arabs versus ethnic Ashkenazim]
• Some Things Never Change [Jewish Arabs and Zionism]
• Non-Ashkenazi Jewish Scholar on Morris [Benny Morris and Jewish Arabs]
• Not the Enemy Israel's Jews from Arab Lands [Jewish Arabs and ethnic Ashkenazim]
• Conundrum of Jewish Arab Identity [Jewish Arabs and ethnic Ashkenazim]
• Jewish, Zionist War Against Salvation [Jewish "Reform" in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries]
• Zionazi Racial Science [Genetic Anthropology]
• How to talk about Zionism, a new improved guide [Precise terminology]
• Corrupt Jewish Social Networking Rules! [Three Great Frauds of Zionism -- the distinction between modern Jews and ancient Judeans]
• Gary Rosenblatt: Noah Feldman and the Confrontation of American with Jewish or Zionist Values [Jewish attitudes toward Jerusalem]

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