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Strategies & Market Trends : World Outlook

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To: Les H who wrote (48558)10/27/2025 1:00:23 PM
From: Les H  Read Replies (2) of 48591
 
Was Judaism Really Invented by an Obscure Scribe Named Shaphan?
Shaphan, scribe to King Josiah, may have launched a reform, but the religion we call Judaism was born later – out of exile, loss, and reinvention in Babylon

Haaretz


Some historians believe King Josiah may have commissioned the scroll to assimilate the Israelites who fled the Assyrian invasion of Israel almost 100 years earlier. The Israelites worshipped other gods, such as Baal and Asherah. Jerusalem was a small village before their arrival.
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