Re: Brithenig et al. Universe (was: Brithenig/Aelyan NorthAmerica)

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:20:38 -0400 John Cowan <jcowan@...>
writes:
> Steg wrote:
> > > So...do any of the inhabitants of the Brithenig Etc. Universe
> see any
> > > problem with me placing my Judean Romance speakers down there
> out of the
> > > way on the eastern Mediterranean?
> I see no problem with it right off, but of course we need to know
> the
> history.  If Rome didn't fall, e.g., or there was no Jewish
> diaspora,
> that would be a *radical* change.
> --
> Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan
> <jcowan@...>
.

Not that radical....i'm farther away from my Second Temple Period Jewish
History class now, so i don't remember *here*'s history that exactly, but
pretty much the divergence started after the Bar Kokhba Rebellion.
Instead of trying to punish Judea by persecuting them out of existence,
the Romans decided to swamp the country with imperial colonists in order
to acculturate the Judeans.  Hence the Judean Romance language.  Except
for that victory, predominantly what happened is that Judea acculturated
the colonists.  So the main difference is that *there* there's always
been a large Jewish community in Judea.
Some of the repercussions of that are:
1. inmigrations of the Khazarians and Adiabenese and fusing of their
royal houses / or / survival of Judea, Khazaria, and Adiabene as
(sometimes) independent states.
2. equality of the Yerushalmi and Bavli talmudic traditions.
3. survival of Indigenous Ashkenazic and Indigenous Mizrahhi traditions.
4. much less "arab-israeli" type conflict.
So pretty much most of the major differences only affect the Middle East
and the region of Khazaria, and maybe a small part of North America if i
can transfer that Sephardic colony idea.  The Jewish diaspora is there,
but it's slightly smaller due to people having relatively safe places to
emmigrate to during periods of persecution instead of just waiting around
for it to be over.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "eze-guvdhab wa'hrikh-a tze, / "zhoutzii wa'esh," i eze-mwe."