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Happy Easter!

First question: Was Jesus a Jew? Answer: I doubt it.

Second question: If Jesus or his mother or his grandparents (or ancestors going back no more than 150 years or so before Jesus’ birth) were Jews/Jewish were they forced at sword-point (death or convert) to covert to Judaism?

Answer: If Jesus or his family or ancestors were Jews then I’d say it’s very likely they were forced to convert to Judaism. For example, they may have been forcefully (under penalty of death) converted under Jewish rulers John Hyrcanus (Yoḥanan Cohen Gadol) or Alexander Jannaeus or other such Jews.

Who were they (Jesus and his ancestors) if they were gentiles forced to convert to Jews? I don’t know but possibly immigrant Assyrians or immigrants from any part of the Assyrian Empire or a mixture of the lost (or expelled) tribes of Israel (who weren’t Jews) and Assyrian immigrants. For example, members of the tribe of Naphtali or Dan or other tribes who managed to remain in Galilee by assimilating into the new population of immigrants.

Third question: Was Jesus born in Galilee? Answer: I’d say it’s extremely likely he was. He was very likely born in Bethlehem of Galilee (not to be confused with Bethlehem of Judea).

I’ll continue this post by way of the comments sections below (rather than doing a Part 2, 3 and so on).

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