Re: Good/Beneficient (was: More Nyenya'a)

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:26:45 -0400 Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
writes:
> >Naaa... not since the Hellenistic Age.  I know that there were
> Jewish
> >Arabian tribes during the time of Muhammad, and some of them, or
> some
> >individuals, may have been into proselytizing, but Judaism stopped
> >supporting that after we pissed off the Roman Empire too many
> times.
> Still, judaic proselytizing has occured in later eras as well -
> there's for
> instance the Khazaric Empire in the early Middle Ages, which
> embraced
> judaism as it's official religion.
>                                                      Andreas
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Well, that's not really proselytizing in the sense of standing on
streetcorners handing out pamphlets or something like that.  According to
the sources, it was the Khazarian king himself who went around doing a
comparative religion survey - so it's just a simple "conversion" as
opposed to a "proselytization" (is that a word?) where the *religion*
goes looking for *people*.  Here the *person* went looking for the
*religion*.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "...mother of nations -
  kings of peoples will come from you..."
     ~ 'sarah' by debbie friedman