no it wasn't lol judah was never called jew only edomites after they took over judea were called jews > "the western extremities of juda towards casius are occupied by idumans(edomites), and by the lake [sirbonis], the idumans (edomites) are nabatans (caananite-mixed race), when driven from their country by sedition, they passed over to the judaeans (the kingdom of judahites/israelites), and adopted their customs. -strabo, geography 16.2.34 (23 ad)   r/e/roman/texts/strabo/16b*.html > they [edomites] killed hyrcanus four years later and then they kicked out all the judahites from the temple. -- josephus (antiquities xv, 6, 1) and edomites descend from esau literally hated by god > i have loved you, says the lord. but you ask, how have you loved us? was not esau jacobs brother? the lord says. yet i have loved jacob, but esau i have hated, and i have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals. > and the house of jacob shall be a fire, and the house of joseph a flame, and the house of esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of esau; for the lord hath spoken it.
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