funny you say this, the Abarim guy brings out how it was the Israelites who were actually the melting pot,, dunno if this is true or not, but he makes a decent case i guess
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All the families of the earth
Far from being an isolated depository of utterly alien dictums, Israel was the melting pot and refinery of the greatest traditions the world had come up with (Psalm 12:6). Israel was never intended to be anything other than a phenomenon from which every family mentioned in Genesis 10 would actively derive blessings, right away and from the "family-level" up (Genesis 12:3).
The word for "families" or "clans" occurs five times in Genesis 10 (also see Ephesians 3:15) and denotes the most rudimentary human organizational structure. Multiple families would synchronize into speaking one language. That language would cover a specific territory and that territory would determine the realm of the state that would eventually form. Hence Genesis 10 utilizes the formula of progression: "according to their families (משפחה,
mishpaha), their languages (לשון,
lashon), their lands (ארץ,
'eres), their nations" (גוי,
goy). Long before it was formally established, Israel was an international project; a USA of its days, with myriads of cultural and economic tributaries:
Neither the general "house of Abraham" nor the specific "house of Israel" was racially pure — or said otherwise: racial purity is of absolutely no concern to the Bible (the Bible is only concerned with purity of thought and action; Deuteronomy 7, Deuteronomy 20:18). The covenant which the Lord cut with Abraham and of which Christ..."
The amazing name Abraham: meaning and etymology
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