When did Jews develop from being a religious group to a ation and people?
According to the Jewish historian Shlomo Sand, “Jewish people were invented at a certain stage in the 19th century, intellectuals of Jewish origin in Germany, influenced by the folk character of German nationalism, took upon themselves the task of inventing a people “retrospectively,” out of a thirst to create a modern Jewish people. From historian Heinrich Graetz on, Jewish historians began to draw the history of Judaism as the history of a nation that had been a kingdom, became a wandering people and ultimately turned around and went back to its birthplace”. Check this out: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/9669… “The Jews of Palestinian origin constitutes an insignificant minority. Like Christians and Muslims, the Jews have engaged with great zeal in the conversation of people to their faith. Before the Christian era, the Jews had converted to the monotheistic religion of Moses other Semites (or Arabs) Gr
