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The Phoenicians (particularly the Carthaginians) are described as a mercantile society where social mobility was achieved through successful commerce, in stark contrast to the military ethos of the Romans and Greeks. Is it a coincidence that their closest levantine neighbors went into the same profession despite biblical sources giving the impression of a warrior society and pre-diaspora Israel and Judah not interacting with foreign countries very much?
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If I recall there are very early rabbinical laws detailing the proper ways to trade with foreigners
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>land merchants living right next to sea merchants
How terrifying, they had all the bases covered.
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>>2503757
>go to buy eggs
>end up with a loan at 14.5% interest you didn't need
>a lend lease option on 2 chickens
>and 5 sacks of foreign flour
>tfw you're the miller
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>>2503362
shalom
manual labor is frowned upon
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>>2504401
But Jesus was the son of a carpenter
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>>2505777
Jesus was Christian Galilean
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Both Jews and Phoenicians sacrificed children to gods as well.
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>military ethos
>Greeks
Only the Macedonians.
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>>2505777
And hung around with a bunch of fishermen
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>>2506383
The Spartans too
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