And God said..."Go South!"

[Tynnin]

I beg to differ - pretty much all major events (the Babylonian captivity, for example) and important people (all prophets after Mozes, along with all kings, including David and Salomo) that affected the history of the Hebrews and their religion will be butterflied away.

There's no way that that would make the Jewish religion only "slightly different"!

Ah, but these were people and events - David, captivity; people and events can easily be duplicated. David was a ruler, there could easily be a similar man who comes to power in this TL (the captivity could be made analogous to perhaps the Hebrews of Madagascar being pushed out of Madagascar for awhile during the migration from the east). The basis for their faith was mostly laid down by the time they left Egypt.

 

[David bar Elias]

Why not the Great Rift Valley. The current location of Uganda and Lake Victoria. The Jews will call the area Eden, the origin of man. Which in this case would be anthropologically correct.

They'll be isolated until the time of Burton, Speke and Livingston.

If that happened they'd probably be a larger version of OTL's Lemba people.

 

[tallwingedgoat]

Why can't the Israelites go south during Solomon's time? Remember the legend of King Solomon's Mines and all that?

 

[DuQuense]

No worries, there be pirates here - arrr!

?when is talk like a pirate day?

The exodus was 1250 -ish BC, this would give the Judes about 1200 yers till the 'nesian people* arrive in the first century AD.
Except there would be no AD ITTL.

*OTL they arrived to a [People] Empty Island.

 

[Ridwan Asher]

?when is talk like a pirate day?

The exodus was 1250 -ish BC, this would give the Judes about 1200 yers till the 'nesian people* arrive in the first century AD.
Except there would be no AD ITTL.

*OTL they arrived to a [People] Empty Island.

And just an information, this first 'nesian people' in Madagascar weren't Buginese but a bunch of Proto-Malays. The Buginese arrived in Madagascar much later after them.