Greek/Roman transformation happened almost a millenium before Arab/Egyptian transformation. In neither case were Jewish proselytizers responsible. In fact, universality is not a Jewish trait.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Exactly. <b>The Ptolemys replaced the Semitic god/man Pharaoh during their rule over Egypt as a way of subduing the populous </b>and thus the Romans had a precedent for their becoming the Jewsâ Messiah.
They also understood the power of ethnicity and so cast the authors of the new Judaism as Jews â Jesus, Paul, Josephus etc.
The new Jewish canon they produced was ingenious, but the overall scheme was old hat.
Joe
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Exactly. <b>The Ptolemys replaced the Semitic god/man Pharaoh during their rule over Egypt as a way of subduing the populous </b>and thus the Romans had a precedent for their becoming the Jewsâ Messiah.
They also understood the power of ethnicity and so cast the authors of the new Judaism as Jews â Jesus, Paul, Josephus etc.
The new Jewish canon they produced was ingenious, but the overall scheme was old hat.
Joe
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