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To: Solon who wrote (7476)	4/8/2002 1:33:31 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Judaism is non- racial. Even in the Bible, various other ethnic groups were incorporated into the Chosen People, and intermarriage was not unusual. The Book of Job deals with a Gentile who is a God- fearing man. The Prophets foresee a Messianic Era, where all races of mankind will be brought together in peace to worship the One God. The Rabbis have a category known as the Noahides, the sons of Noah, gentiles who are God- fearing but not bound by the Torah, who are deemed among the righteous. As I said, conversion to Judaism was widespread in the Mediterranean basin during the Hellinistic Period and early Roman Empire, and race was not an issue. This jibes with my claims about the tenor of the Bible being non- racial........