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From: "Nurev Ind Research" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Jesus grew up in the boondocks, not the capital.
>
> Even so, I doubt that boonie towns were integrated.
They weren't 'integrated' as much as being comprised of a mix of peoples, not all of
whom practiced a pure
form of the Judaic faith...
> > Pagans were common,
> > even after nearly a millennium of Jewish repression.
>
> Poor Pagans. I guess the I guess the Jews gave them a hard time about
> burring their children and other human sacrifices.
Very few pagan religions in the Middle East practiced human sacrafice, especially
'burning' one's children...
The only evidence of ritual infanticide exists in Cyprus, nowhere else...
> > All the Jews did
> > was drive out the temples. The pagans remained. Many Jews themselves
> > were pagans or still practiced elements of pagan religion (as do we
> > today).
>
> If you mean Hellenism. Yes. If you mean something else, then not likely.
>
> > They also married pagans.
>
> I doubt it.
"Not likely" and "I doubt it" are hardly scholarly answers. I suggest that you
actually RESEARCH the history
of religions of both the area and the era...
Intermarriage between Jews and pagans was a common problem, indicated time and again
in the OT...one would
find more temples and altars to Baal in the countryside than Jewish temples...
Ongoing archeological digs substantiate this...
June
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