Jews

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Jews. See also Hebrew language; Jews (ancient Hebrews); Judaism
apocalyptists taught sufferings due to nation’s sins (135:5.2)
attitudes
chosen people q.v.
deep-seated prejudice against all images (185:1.3-4)
family devotion and natural affection far transcended that of gentiles (84:7.1) (95:5.8) (121:3.10)
God was Father of race, not individual (142:2.2,3) (145:2.4)
had God but no saving philosophy (132:7.5)
history of ill-feeling with Samaritans (124:6.1) (137:7.11) (143:4sec) (164:1.4)
Judeans less willing to believe gospel (166:2.2)
lacked humor (156:2.8)
looked upon all others as gentile dogs (121:2.8) (121:7.1-2) (164:1.2)
loved justice, wisdom, truth, and righteousness (97:10.6)
majority refused to receive Jesus (173:4.4) (174:5.3-9) (175:1.1,7) (175:2sec) (195:0.2,5)
never lost concept of Father (97:10.3)
nurtured on miracles (136:6.6-8) (136:8.1) (137:6.5)
objected to public nakedness (187:2.2)
opposed taking census (88:1.6)
resented emperor worship (121:5.4)
saw God in everything that happened (148:5.4) (156:5.4)
settled concept of their history and destiny (121:7.1)
spiritually stagnant; crystallized truth into a creed (155:3.3)
took their religion too seriously; failed to evolve nontheologic philosophy of life (97:8.2) (195:1.6)
unwilling to share Yahweh with gentiles (121:7.2)
vibrant with expectation of a misconceived Messiah (97:10.3) (121:2.7) (135:5sec) (136:1sec) (136:2.1)
watchword was authority (173:2.3)
willing to die for their religion (185:1.1,3)
worshiped letter of the law; self-righteous false pride of descent (97:10.3) (121:7.1)
Christian prejudice against J. inexcusable (175:2sec)
clamored to be fed, for miracles, that Jesus become king (136:9.13)
contrasted with Greeks and Romans (98:2.7-9) (191:5.3)
Creator Sons incarnate in group with greatest Adamic inheritance (21:4.3)
daily life
annual income of 1 man bought bread for 5000 (172:1.7)
children’s play life circumscribed (123:4.2)
custom of son’s ring (169:1.9)
dead embalmed; buried on day of demise (167:4.3) (188:1.4)
education compulsory (123:5.11)
in bondage to priest-ridden code of laws, sacrifices, rituals (97:10.2-3)
inheritance laws (169:1.6)
ordinarily provided safeguards of fairness in trials (184:3.4,6) (184:4.1)
owned slaves (173:1.3) (186:1.2)
restraint on women’s approach to strange men (196:0.5)
did not fulfill destiny as people with spiritual mission (121:2.8) (121:7.5) (175:1.5-6) (176:1.2) (182:3.9)
eminently fitted to spread new religion (121:1.1)
famed for military valor, theologic peculiarities (98:0.3)
found God as no other whole race of men (155:6.10)
Gabriel chose J. as race for Michael’s incarnation (122:0.2)
gentiles morally inferior to (121:4.1)
Hebrews from southern kingdom of Judah known as J. (97:9.2)
history disastrously exploited by Jewish and Christian writers (97:8.5-6) (97:9sec)
in 200 synagogues throughout Roman world (121:2.3-4)
Jesus the last to afford real national leadership (186:2.8)
Jesus was not the Messiah anticipated by (122:4.2-4)
kingdom of heaven taken from (175:1.6) (175:2.1)
not a miraculous people (97:9.29)
political matters
enjoyed considerable self-government (121:2.7)
most influential Semitic people (121:2.1)
nation left in accordance with purely human status (175:2.1) (175:3.2)
national history began with Abraham (136:1.1)
national survival due to Roman foreign policy (121:2.8) (128:5.3)
sorrows of a misunderstood despised people (121:6.7) (155:6.10)
status of the individual Jew (175:2sec)

Cross-references

See also Hebrew language
See also Jews (ancient Hebrews)
See also Judaism

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