8trackdisco wrote:At what point and why did the Israelites evolve into being renamed Jews?
I kinda thought, without real certainty, that the words Jew, Jewish, Judaism probably derived from one of the 12 tribes, named for Jacob's (also called Israel...maybe the Children of Israel?) sons. One was Judah, his tribe sort of became the Kindgom of Judea...I'm close if not accurate.
Mix in some ancient Aramaic (spoken at the time of Jesus, who was from the Tribe of Judah) some ancient Greek and/or Latin and it ends up today as what we use for the words.
This is a start, Russ, not to be used as a source.