>>21796848Judah's a tribal region which formed a kingdom, and included Jerusalem.
Israel is a kingdom north and northwest of Judah and was composed of a lot of tribes unrelated to Judah.
In essence, the story of Jesus claims he's an Israelite, within the context of the ancient kingdoms. That means even though he worked in Jerusalem and primarily built his following in Jerusalem, he's not actually Judean, thus he's not judaeoi, thus he's not IUDAE, thus he's not Jewish in the ethnic sense of the term.
In religious context, there are more indications that Jesus was not a Torah reader than that he was one, explicitly in the fact that he fought the rabbis who taught Torah (as per the story anyway, the oldest fragment of a torah isn't even pre-Charlemagne) and professed a vastly different philosophy more in tune with Vedic manuscripts and Egyptian mythologies.
There's also the notion that the Bible is a compilation of sources familiar with various situations they've heard about, and Jesus is just one particular situation. Accuracy of who's from where and what specific people did is difficult to ascertain from what's effectively hearsay written in ink.
What we do have fortunately is a description from the Romans, and they describe Jesus as a tall fair blonde man with long locks. A far cry from the typical Semite from Judah, but fairly common among the Hebrew peoples up north.
Common precisely because of what the word Hebrew really means in Canaanite tongue: foreigner.
This is also why the Jews of today claim to be Israelites. They're not Israelites in the archaic sense, they're not of the same bloodlines or religion or belief.
They are however, extremely foreign to the region, foreign to society, foreign to humanity. A subtle joke, if you will: "The Nation State of Foreigners", who claim birthright to the territory.
