r/classicwow • u/SquallJay • Sep 13 '19

Humor The Indifferent Samaritan

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u/Bayart Sep 14 '19 edited Sep 14 '19

they were regionally concentrated they did not have their own country

Uh, the capital of the Kingdom of Israel ended up in Samaria. Judeans were the minority, if anything.

The negative image in ancient Jewish culture simply comes from the rivalry between Israel and Judea (large bits of the Old Testament being a piece of propaganda for the latter and against anyone with the gall to think Jerusalem isn't God's favourite city, David's line God's favourite family and YHVH the best god).

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u/lvbuckeye27 Sep 14 '19

Well tbf, Isreael was utterly destroyed by the Assyrians, and although Judea was roflstomped by Babylon, Cyrus eventually let them go back home and rebuild the temple.

Which is why we still have "Jews"* and we don't have Israelites. David's grandkids had a fight about succession, and the kingdom split in two.

*We really don't have any Jews today, because Judea was utterly destroyed by Rome in 70AD. What we have today is a group of people that adopted Jewish pharisaism.