The Serapeum By The Serapeum
“Strictly speaking it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a ‘Jew’ or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew.”
~1980 Jewish Almanac, p. 3
The word ‘Jew’.
The word ‘Jew’ replaced the words, Judah, Judahite, and Judaean.
If you examine the full study ‘Jew OR Judah?’ you will see a bad case of identity theft.
Judah was the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. Judah is the territory of Judah. Israelites of the house of Judah are called Judahites. A Judaean is a citizen of Judaea.
This is extremely confusing for the unlearned ‘church’ goer.
In the Old Testament, the incorrect word ‘Jew’ NEVER identifies a Jew. It always identifies an Israelite of the tribe or house of Judah. Jews are not Israelites, they are Edomites.
In the New Testament, you must understand the context to understand who is Judah and who is Jew. Since the land of Judah and the land of Idumea were merged into the land then called Judaea in the first century BC, a Judaean could then be an Israelite of the house of Judah, or an Edomite Jew of the house of Esau from Idumea.
This word ‘Jew’ is not a mistake, it is a deliberate tampering of scripture. The result is that the world and the ‘churches’ believe the Jews are Israelites, which they are not…
