Have Christianity remain being thought of as a sect of Judaism. Presto. Judaism now comprises 33% of the world's population.
Don't have emperors be demigods, and the hellenic Jews would be a serious religion soon enough imhoOr, just butterfly Christianity entirely. According to some sources, Jews comprised 10% of the Roman population around 0 CE and there was a much more active proselytizing movement than today. If Christianity never absorbs the proselytizers, Judaism can appeal to many of the same people as Christianity did, whilst the similar cultural emphasis on law will make it less of a threat to Roman elites.
Have Christianity remain being thought of as a sect of Judaism. Presto. Judaism now comprises 33% of the world's population.
Keep him alive, keep Vespasian from sacking Jerusalem, and he'll be able to exert a lot more influence on how Christianity develops, and may even be able to keep it from budding off from Judaism entirely.
According to some sources, Jews comprised 10% of the Roman population around 0 CE and there was a much more active proselytizing movement than today.
Of course. Semitic peoples would be of a significant number(probably greater than 10pc) but they would include even the Aramaic speaking Assyrian peoples as well along with the Jews. And not all Jews were Semitic even back then probably. The Romanoite Jews would be European and speaking an European language even then. Not to mention the many descendants of Roman Jews.I can't really imagine that, unless someone confused "Jews" and "semites". Source?
Judaism will need to be a lot more interested in missionizing, a lot more. The "rules" of Judaism, starting with circumcision and kosher are obstacles to conversion, although not as much as some would think - after all Islam has some of the same dietary restrictions and many "rules", less than Judaism but many more than Christianity as it affects the average persons life. Of course for Islam in many areas it followed the sword and pagans had the choice of Islam or the sword frequently. IMHO you'd need to somehow cause Christianity to vanish - it won't be a sect of Judaism long term, one of the key differences was that Christianity specifically said the laws of Judaism were now obsolete.
Have Christianity remain being thought of as a sect of Judaism. Presto. Judaism now comprises 33% of the world's population.
Or, just butterfly Christianity entirely....
I can't really imagine that, unless someone confused "Jews" and "semites". Source?