Like, to spread their beliefs?
2007-12-03 15:45:20 · 6 answers · asked by Lola Bunny 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Start in Exodus and read through I & II Kings. That's pretty much all the intervening Books of the Bible are about (minus the geneologies in Numbers). After the Jews got drug off into captivity they calmed down, but their early history is loaded with instances of wiping out surrounding tribes of people. They weren't really trying to spread their beliefs though. They just wanted to exterminate anyone who didn't share them.
2007-12-03 15:49:43 · answer #1 · answered by David M 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes, they had conquests! Like when they left Egypt and exterminated the people of Amalek along the way or when they got to the "Promised Land" and destroyed those peoples too. But, hey, they were the "chosen people" and "God willed it!"
But no, not to spread their beliefs. They didn't convert, they killed!
But I can dig it because that which we now call "genocide" used to have another name. It was called "nation building." It was the Franks leaving Germany and moving into Gaul (later "France"), or the Japanese leaving Manchuria and going to "Japan," or the Vietnamese leaving China and moving to "Vietnam," or the Americans following "Manifest Destiny" and spreading from "sea to shining sea."
2007-12-04 02:25:55 · answer #2 · answered by James@hbpl 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
The Hasmonean Kings of the 2nd century BC advanced into Galilee and forcibly converted the inhabitants. Quite an interesting fact in the light of what happened there later!
2007-12-04 00:30:49 · answer #3 · answered by gravybaby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's how they got the "Promised Land". They wiped out the indigenous inhabitants. History repeats itself
2007-12-04 01:23:59 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Judaism does not proselytize so no.
2007-12-04 10:51:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Post-biblically, no.
2007-12-03 23:48:18 · answer #6 · answered by Mark S, JPAA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋