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<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Nov 8 2008, 01:46 AM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Nov 8 2008, 01:46 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->H.G. Wells in his "Outline History of the World" speculates that the Jewish people in various parts of the ancient world were actually Phoenicians. Very fascinating article where in the root Panis- means Vanij or merchants. And Phoenicians were the number one traders.
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Didn't we come across this point earlier in the thread? The same conclusion can be arrived at by assuming Jews as the remnant victims of the Phoenician defeat. It is said that Hannibal was educated by Jews. This is a roundabout and tongue-in-cheek way of saying that Hannibal was decisively defeated and his descendants became Jews. The Jews suffer through history while the Greco-Roman colonials "make history". The origin of Theology (ie Monotheism or Organized Religion or Orthodoxy or Right Belief) has to be investigated in this sequence of events. Having Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Akhenaten, and so on, as fellow Monotheists is part of the subterfuge and diversion. Theology is a more comprehensive entity than mere iconoclasm, erasing history of the preceding ruler, one god, and so on. Even Balagandhara gives a precedence to the colonial aspect of theology (although he states that Religion/Theology is not strictly dependent on a colonial relationship).....
<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Nov 8 2008, 01:46 AM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Nov 8 2008, 01:46 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->H.G. Wells in his "Outline History of the World" speculates that the Jewish people in various parts of the ancient world were actually Phoenicians. Very fascinating article where in the root Panis- means Vanij or merchants. And Phoenicians were the number one traders.
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Didn't we come across this point earlier in the thread? The same conclusion can be arrived at by assuming Jews as the remnant victims of the Phoenician defeat. It is said that Hannibal was educated by Jews. This is a roundabout and tongue-in-cheek way of saying that Hannibal was decisively defeated and his descendants became Jews. The Jews suffer through history while the Greco-Roman colonials "make history". The origin of Theology (ie Monotheism or Organized Religion or Orthodoxy or Right Belief) has to be investigated in this sequence of events. Having Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Akhenaten, and so on, as fellow Monotheists is part of the subterfuge and diversion. Theology is a more comprehensive entity than mere iconoclasm, erasing history of the preceding ruler, one god, and so on. Even Balagandhara gives a precedence to the colonial aspect of theology (although he states that Religion/Theology is not strictly dependent on a colonial relationship).....