@SpurgAnon This and many others are the reason the whole "jews aren't israelites" thing falls flat for me, ignoring the physical descriptions and reconstructed images (hint they look like jews lol), they also act just the same, it's ALMOST like they're the same people like everyone that isn't a CI or adjacent believer would tell you. Got to thinking about this earlier when chatting with a fren (wasn't debating just came up), and was talking about Josephus, the most jewy case I've seen in a hot minute.