...I don't think ANY American including my-self would want to live in an Islamic Country...yet. Islam developed because Semitic religions flourished here. Islam replaced some of the worldÂ’s most undeveloped areas economically and politically on earth save sub-Sahara Africa.
It also flourished here because Islam replaced lawlessness where the common man meant nothing...
As in areas where Economic development has occurred like Qatar, Dubai, Morocco, Islam like all other religions before it changed and moderated politically and socially.
Look at Judaism? Can you imagine if it did not have the Western influences Israel lives today...Can you imagine being ruled by the Hassidim, walking around praying all day?
Western thought, not Judaism is the mind-set of world Jewry today.
Israel needs to understand this concept...if she makes peace and trades with her immediate neighbors, the mere Economic changes will mollify the religious attitudes of the area to create a stable peace.
Patience and the onset of Islamic Democracies are a historic opportunity for Israel to negotiate an acceptable peace..
The Hebrews influenced Western thought you ******* moron. The Ten Commandments and the principles of the OT were part of the foundation for Western Civilization. In fact the Ten commandments are still found in many Western Courthouses today. Wait don't tell me, Moses and Jesus were Muslims thousands of years before the Saudi Arabian illiterate terrorist theif arrived and brought Islam with him.
Septuagint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Septuagint (*/ˈsɛptjuːəˌdʒɪnt/) (or "LXX", or "Greek Old Testament") is a translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Greek, begun in the late 3rd century BCE. The Septuagint is quoted by the New Testament[1] (particularly by St. Paul),[2] and by the Apostolic Fathers. King Ptolemy once gathered 72 Elders. He placed them in 72 chambers, each of them in a separate one, without revealing to them why they were summoned. He entered each one's room and said: "Write for me the Torah of Moshe, your teacher." God put it in the heart of each one to translate identically as all the others did.[11]
Philo of Alexandria, who relied extensively on the Septuagint,[12] says that the number of scholars was chosen by selecting six scholars from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. This legend, with its miraculous details, underlines the fact that some Jews in antiquity wished to present the translation as authoritative.[6]
In time the LXX became synonymous with the "Greek Old Testament", i.e. a Christian canon of writings which incorporated all the books of the Hebrew canon, along with additional texts. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches use most of the books of the Septuagint; however, Protestant churches usually do not. After the Protestant Reformation, many Protestant Bibles began to follow the Jewish canon and exclude the additional texts, which came to be called "Apocrypha" (i.e. of questionable authenticity). The Apocrypha are included under a separate heading in the King James Version of the Bible, the basis for the Revised Standard Version.[26]
(2) The Septuagint Version accepted first by the Alexandrian Jews, and afterwards by all the Greek-speaking countries, helped to spread among the Gentiles the idea and the expectation of the Messias, and to introduce into Greek the theological terminology that made it a most suitable instrument for the propagation of the Gospel of Christ.
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major reference
• TITLE: Judaism (religion)
SECTION: Hellenistic Judaism (4th century bce–2nd century ce)
Hellenistic Judaism (4th century bce–2nd century ce)
beliefs
eschatology
• TITLE: eschatology (religion)
SECTION: Hellenistic Judaism
During the period of Seleucid rule in Palestine (c. 200–165 bce) and later Roman and Byzantine rule (63 bce–638 ce), the expectation of a personal messiah acquired increasing prominence and became the centre of a number of other eschatological concepts. The Qumrān sects, Jewish monastic groups known in modern times for their preservation of the Dead Sea Scrolls,...
mind–body dualism
• TITLE: Judaism (religion)
SECTION: The earthly-spiritual creature
...divorced from the unitary biblical view, but a body-soul dualism (see mind-body dualism) was effectively present in such literature. In the Alexandrian version of Hellenistic Judaism, the orientation toward Greek philosophy, particularly the Platonic view of the soul imprisoned in the flesh, led to a clear-cut dualism with a negative attitude toward the body....
conflict with Antiochus IV Epiphanes
• TITLE: Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Seleucid king)
SECTION: Efforts to hellenize the kingdom
AntiochusÂ’ hellenizing policies brought him into conflict with the prosperous Oriental temple organizations, and particularly with the Jews. Since Antiochus IIIÂ’s reign the Jews had enjoyed extensive autonomy under their high priest. They were divided into two parties, the orthodox Hasideans (Pious Ones) and a reform party that favoured Hellenism. For financial reasons Antiochus supported the...
literature
biblical interpretation
• TITLE: biblical literature
SECTION: The Hellenistic period
The translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek by Alexandrian Jews in the 2nd and 3rd centuries bc provided opportunities for recording interpretations that were probably current in Hellenistic Judaism. Literal translations might be misleading to Greek readers; metaphors natural in Hebrew were rendered into less-figurative Greek. “Walking with God” or “walking before...
influence of Greeks
• TITLE: biblical literature
SECTION: Persian and Hellenistic influences
Though Hellenistic Jewish authors sometimes imitated biblical forms, they learned such forms from their Greek Bible (the Septuagint). Many Greek products written by Jews served as religious propaganda and probably influenced many pagans to become proselytes, or at least to abandon their heathen faith and become “God-fearing.” Thus, the Jewish literature written in Greek could be...
myth and legend
• TITLE: Judaism (religion)
SECTION: Myth and legend in the Hellenistic period
Myth and legend in the Hellenistic period
prophets
• TITLE: prophecy
SECTION: Prophecy and prophetic religion in postbiblical Judaism
Some prophets are known from the period of Hellenistic Judaism. I Maccabees, chapter 14, relates that Simon Maccabeus, who finally secured political independence for Judaea in 142 bc, was chosen as “leader and high priest forever, until a trustworthy prophet should arise.” The same notion of a prophet soon to appear is expressed in chapter 1 of I Maccabees. The Hasmonean...
