>>21069073Saying that the Galileans are racially distinctive from the Israelites (semites) is like saying that the Anglos in New York are ethnically distinctive to the rest of Anglo-USA.
Consider 'Hellenistic Judaism' was prevelant before Christ; to be a Hellen was to follow the philosophy of "Speak Greek, be Greek"; however, if you are racially self-aware, this does not in fact make you a Greek, but a Greek speaker. If you apply this same logic towards the Greek speakers of Galilee, it doesn't make them there forth an ethnic Greek.
The concept of God (Yahweh/YHWH) itself is a borrowed ancient God from a Canaanite semetic religion. Yahweh/"God" (the Christian God) itself is the national God of Israel (John 1:49)--'national' in the classical meaning: "Birth, race of people"--who encompasses 'all' of the Israelites, entailing to correctly mean by the descendants of Abraham and all those who inherited Israel, for it is the homeland--and salvation--of the ethnic Jews. In 'Isaiah 40:15' the 'Isles of the Gentiles' (Gentiles implicating non Jews)--meaning Western of Israel towards Egypt and Greece; the Pagans of Egypt and Europe.
Jesus is many times himself is referred to as a Rabbi (i.e. John 1:49). It's also interesting how you neglect--or are otherwise ignorant to--of contradictory, *and crucial*, details like Isaiah 60:90-12 where they refer to these Gentiles (aka, the Greeks, aka your supposed 'Galilean Greek' narrative) as a distinctively *foreign nation*: "[10] Foreigners (Greeks) shall build up your walls".
To further elaborate about the 'God (Yahweh; Israelite Jewish God) of Israel', there is at no point made the distinction that the rest of the Israelites of non Galilean habitation are therefore Gentiles likewise to the Egyptians; could it be perhaps because they are, the obvious and if not already overstated, also ethnic Jews themselves? If it were not so a crucial detail, why was such a major oversight made in a book so supposedly the lore of God-Yahweh.
