Jewish Roman Empire?

What would have to occur for the events of the 1st Century A.D. to lead to a Jewish Roman Empire, instead of Christian One? Or at least of Roman Empire that's religious beliefs were more in line with what we think of Judiasm today than Christianity, if not an exact replica, and allowing for some of the latin / hellenizing influence mass conversion to Judiasm would bring.
 
What would have to occur for the events of the 1st Century A.D. to lead to a Jewish Roman Empire, instead of Christian One? Or at least of Roman Empire that's religious beliefs were more in line with what we think of Judiasm today than Christianity, if not an exact replica, and allowing for some of the latin / hellenizing influence mass conversion to Judiasm would bring.

Not really, not without the Jewish religion altering to include far more than Judahites.

It would require shedding a lot of the Halacha combined with a universalist soteriology, and that's basically the Christianity of the era in a nutshell....
 
Because traditional Judaism is not missionary, I think it is very improbable that it could have every seriously become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.

Now on the flip side, it is possible that had say Paul not lived, that the Ebionite or a similar form of Christianity might have developed that focused on Jesus as a human messiah and prophet as opposed to one who was divine. Such a Christianity might well have more closely resembled Judaism than modern Christianity.

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Bill
 
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