----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Grimaldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:28 PM Subject: Re: A little help here
> > Matt said: > > > > > I thought that BOTH the Christian and Muslim religions > > > grew out of and broke off from the Jewish religion. > > > > Richard Baker wrote: > > > > "Muslim" and "Arab" are not synonyms, however. But on the > > other hand I have no knowledge at all of the ancient > > history of Jews and Arabs. > > > > > I agree. Islam pretty much took over the Arab world > much in the same way (but not necessarily using the > same methods) that Christianity took over the European > world. I'm also in the same boat as you, in that I > don't know the origins of either Arab or Jewish > cultures (not religions,) but I don't think they > have the same origins. I don't remember Arab's as part of either the Egyptian or Persian Empire. They weren't the Assyrians. I think, they probably don't predate the Jewish people as an identified group. Dan M.
