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[–]DragonerneJesus is white 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

funnily enough you see so many Old Testament names springing up during the Reformation because Prots wanted to LARP as Jews.

very interested in this. Could you explain or link to info about this?

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

E. Michael Jones has written a lot about that topic, dragon. There's an entire chapter in The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit about it and I'm sure if you go over to culture wars you can find his writings on the topic.

[–]Rakean93Identitarian socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a well know topic actually. Epecially the calvinists considered themselves, in a sort of way, to be the new "Jews". The whole idea of building a "city on the Hill" (Massachusetts) or a "community of saints" (Geneva) was linked to a strict interpretation of the predestination that resemble the jew's argument about the chosen people. That eventually (very rapidly) evolved in the Covenant Theology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_theology#:~:text=Covenant%20theology%20(also%20known%20as,organizing%20principle%20for%20Christian%20theology. which obviusly resemble the jew's attitude toward the "pact between God and the Chosen People" based on the Laws. Note that this doesn't mean that every calvinist recognized itself as a "New Jew"; but it was a common theme and it's been analized in several works.