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To: Poet who wrote (9548)4/18/2002 8:47:50 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
There have been points in its history when Judaism WAS a proselytizing religion. It stopped, after the destruction of the Second Temple and rise of Christianity, for the most part. However, there are still records of proselytizing in the Middle Ages. For example, one of the most famous Jewish books of the Medieval period is The Khazari, which deals with an episode where a Near Eastern kingdom (close to Armenia) invited representatives of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to debate in the court, and ended up converting en masse to Judaism. Nowadays, most conversion occurs in the context of inter- marriage........
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