The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: Tfutza, תְּפוּצָה) or exile (Hebrew: Galut, גָּלוּת; Yiddish: Golus) refers to the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe.[1][2]The country has always been a government of rebelling slaves returning home, the original pirates den.
The Hellenistic movement:
The Hebrews were Jewish Christians who spoke almost exclusively Aramaic, and the Hellenists were also Jewish Christians whose mother tongue was Greek. They were Greek-speaking Jews of the Diaspora, who returned to settle in Jerusalem.The latest batch of Jewish slaves to make it back homer. These were the early Christains, as were the survivalists, the Jesus movement. The Hellenists were about the new philosophy of religion, government and commerce, and so was Paul, at first, a typical Hellenist. This was just a semi-secret philosophy group within the Jewish religion.
The Jesus group believed right away that Jesus arose from the dead was was up and about, a sure sign that the end of the world was upon us. Te Jesus fable won the day, somehow. The gospels were oral traditions, the Hellenists were fully literate in greek. Why did Paul support the Jesus freaks? He claimed a vision, but then that is a definitional requirement. The better question is why did the Jesus fable become such a popular story? And I think the answer would be in the first written material available to the illiterate, a Jesus fable is a very good first read and the first churches acted as libraries, agents of the written grammar.
The masses are not interested in the fairness of contracts, they wanted a mystical story to read on Sunday. For Paul a little cynicism never hurt and he was, after all, part of the literate intelligencia. Using the myth to sell his philosophy is no worse than selling a good novel.
Christianity as a European franchised library system. Since immediately after the execution, the literature begin, well preserved. Since that time, the Greek and Latin Christians have made literate and library the grammar of record. The era of hand writing, one might call it.
Hellenists were the new scribes, later a role shared by the Latinists. The Jesus movement was a residual of the oral tradition,still alive today. The regular and irregular gammarians.
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