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Do the sages ever use the word "Jews" to describe the B'nai Israel before the Assyrian captivity?
This may be more a semantic question than anything else, but I'm wondering what the position is on using the word "Jew" to refer to Israelites before the Assyrian captivity. My impression is that the ...
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Were the prophets and holy people who lived before Judah (Yehudah) also Jews?
The word "Jew" originates from the name of Jacob's son, Judah. The term "Jew" was introduced many generations and decades after him. I wonder whether Adam, Noah, Lot, Abraham and ...
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