Talk:Clearchus of Soli

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Hebrews
"Clearchus reported a dialogue with Aristotle, where the philosopher states that the Hebrews were descendants of the Indian philosophers"

The source provided makes no mention of Hebrews. It says Jews, not Hebrews. Hebrews and Israelites have only been synonymous with Jews in relatively recent history. Even in the original Greek version, it says ἰουδαίου which translates to Jew but only because of mainstream Judeo-Christianity's concensus to make Yehudim/Judean/Judaism/Jewish all the same thing. This is historical revisionism. The article about Herod's kingdom requiring everybody to practice Judaism is factually incorrect. Observe the law of Judea, which the modern religion of Judaism is a continuation or from a religious perspective (a similar claim can be made for all Abrahamic faiths). Religion didn't exist back then the way it does now, it was government.

In that example, not everybody in Judea was Jewish. Not ethnically or religiously. This is such a taboo topic, but an encyclopedia should not bow down to a religious concensus. Facts are not determined by majority faith-based opinions. The same thing goes especially for Hebrews and Israelites. The religious concensus is the only concensus. It ignores the Haiburus and the various Iberians (Ireland, Spain, Georgia, Russia) as possible historical Hebrews in favor of nothing historical as proof. It ignores the Jutes as Jews as in Anglo-Saxon-Jutes despite all the evidence to the contrary that the historians turn a blind eye to.

So equating Hebrews with Jews from a source that already elsewhere treats them as separate is a mistake which many people believe because the terms have become synonymous mostly for political and revisionist purposes, mostly within the last century — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.147.97.27 (talk) 05:48, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Are his writings available online?
The article contains a list of his writings. Are they available online? It would be useful to know where/how to access his writings. Pete unseth (talk) 14:41, 26 July 2021 (UTC)