The Bible is an amalgam of Hebrew, Mesopotamian, Syrian, Greek and Roman culture, religion and philosophy. It has seen the most translations into the most languages of any book still in print. Christian religion has spread to more and more distinct cultures than any other, bar perhaps Islam.
In light of these facts, I find it equal parts tragic and absurd to see Christians argue against the idea of multiculturalism.
Would it surprise you to learn that non-Hebrews in Palestine were speaking Semitic? Hurrians had more to do with the book than any other people. But who has heard of them? Phoenicians, a people who didn't even exist, get the credit for the international alphabet, but the unknown Pelasgians gave them the letters thereof, according to Herodotus.
Did you know that the land where Jesus grew up had a Bethlehem? And that land was given by Solomon to the king of Tyre. Which makes Galilee quite literally the land of the Gentiles.
With Culture defined as religion, Jesus taught the words the Father gave Him to say as the Culture which will separate the sheep from the wolves. Jesus says His sheep hear His voice, but those who do not were never His sheep. If you think this is all-inclusive, you are badly mistaken. If Jesus came only unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and He found them in Galilee of the Gentiles.
The Amorites are called by Sayce and Petrie large red-heads with pale skin. The Bible says the Jews were like grasshoppers in comparison. The pictures of the Amorites look like Nordic people. But some idiots say Amorites were Semites, because the language attributed to that area are said to have come from them. Don't we have to wonder at all who the Semites were if the Hamite Canaanites were speaking a Semitic language? Shouldn't we wonder if the name Canaanite was nationality rather than ethnicity?
People from the Trojan War went looking for a home. Some set sail, while others gathered what remained of their families and possessions and moved to Canaan. Achaean became Hivite, Danai became Dor, Troad Gergathites became people of virtually the same name in Canaan... Peleset became Philistine. Many of those tribes settled in Galilee of the Gentiles... which is still and forever owned by Hiram of Tyre. It is probably at this point in time that some parts of Palestine were called Phoenician, although the Bible never mentions it, and at least one brave modern author doubts that there ever was such a people, back in the day.
My point is this: that Aegean people were Sea Peoples, some even openly called Pelag-skoi. Being sailors, they did what sailors do. They carried things from point A to points B and C. Is it hard to believe that the so-called Phoenicians were actually Aegean people from start to finish? We have record of Tyrians and Sidonians and Biblos folks and Ugarites, etc., but no nation encompasses them. And bilingual was the norm, as proved by Ugarit.
Europa came from Phoenicia and gave her name to Europe. Was she a Semite? Probably not. But MultiCulturalism is Chaos, and teasing apart the various tangled threads is made even harder to do by the presuppositions of archaeologists and the special-interest groups which publish their findings.
Who got credit for the collected texts of the Bible? Not the wide lands of the Hurrians, in which answersingenesis gives
credit for the tower of Babel... Not to be found in so-called Babylon was Ur of the Chaldees. Armenia has been so often invaded by Asians that it's impossible to see its relationship to Gomer's Nordic people.
Looking for Gomer means finding the Ashkenaz place-name at the Troad, and then travelling all the way to Wales where the Caledonian red-heads called themselves Cymry. And backtracking by the Traditionary Annals of the Cymry to lands near Constantinople, where the Cymry were named Cimbri and Cimmerians, before the Asian invasion of Sacae-Saxon-Scythians forced them out of their homes. It seems that Gomer was Viking, as Javan was the Sea People. No wonder Moses called our lands the isles of the Gentiles.
Today, Gomer and Javan live together as Normans and Silures in Wales. Does any history book ever connect these dots? No. Know why? Because the Saxons came to Britain, and named hills Gog Magog, set statues in London, and claimed they own what they took by conquest. And London houses the international bank.
