How/why did groups far away from Israel adopt Judaism?

>>2686559

THey got thrown out of ISrael and were told to go somewhre else. Thats why its called the Lost Tribes of Israel.

Despite popular misconceptions Jews did actively proselytize.

>>2686559
The Jews set up synagogues like embassies.

From the Maccabean revolt of the mid-2nd century BC to the Bar Kokhba revolt of the 2nd century AD, judaism was the most actively proselytising religion. They even converted people by force.

>>2686559
because Judaism used to be more open to converts. also beta israel and the jews of yemen were the result of jewish immigration and mixing with the natives, not that different from the Ashkenazi who have y chromosomes that tie them to the levant and mitochondria from southern european women

>>2686584
this. the Hasmonean kingdom forcefully converted edomites

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Romans made them GTFO

>>2686628
>consolidation of Jewish community in Galilee
not sure what this means

>>2686628

What are examples of messianic Jewish sects other than Christianity?

>>2686653
Not him, but various Essenic groups, the "Zealots", the Sicarii if you count them as a separate religious group and not just very violent members of other groups, probably more that I'm not aware of. Most of them didn't last, like whatever you want to call John the Baptist's following.

>>2686559
They travelled around a lot

>>2686638

Jews left Jerusalem and moved to Galilee. Seems clear enough.

>>2686668
>like whatever you want to call John the Baptist's following.

Nigger the Mandeans are still around.

>>2686712
>Mandeans
>Implying they're actually the spiritual or even literal successors of John the Baptist and not just We Wuzzing.
Anon, an Iraqi group that decries "Adonai" as a demon has drifted pretty far from any kind of group that could be considered the umbrella of Jewish religious thought.