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

At 18:26 26/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Steg Belsky wrote:
>>On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:55:47 +0300 Markus Miekk-oja / Torpet
>><torpet@...> writes:
>> > Someone claimed that the Jews were trying to convert the arabs to
>> > judaism
>> > when Muhammed began his carrieer.
>> > The text continued "but since the local jews didn't considered
>> > Muhammed to
>> > be of any political importance, they didn't focus on trying to
>> > converting
>> > him".
>> > (this sounds a bit wierd though - judaism isn't exactly known for
>> > trying to
>> > spread the faith. Are there judaistic sects that try to convert
>> > non-judaists? I assume no one is counting islam and christianity as
>> > judaistic sects.)
>>-
>>
>>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.
This thread is turning into something that should probably be on the
conculture list.

On sort of the same topic, though it's probably already known of by
some of the people on the list, I stumbled across these pages recently
when I was looking for something to do with Irish spelling reform:

  * http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/ijhnbb.htm
  * http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/temple.htm
K.

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