Hey, I'm a person of Jewish descent and I know a good bit about Islam so I wanted to dispel some of the misinformation in this thread.
For one thing, yes, Magi is DEFINITELY inspired by the Torah and the Qoran. For example:
- The cosmology of the world - where a world is created by the one before it - comes from Kabbalah, which is Jewish mysticism - parallel to Sufism in Islam.
- The idea of Ruh as a soul is from Arabic, and the whole idea of the world being made of it is from Ruh Al-Quds in Islam, the spirit of God.
- Sheba and Solomon are of course from the Jewish bible.
- The djinn are from the Qoran and possibly pre-Islamic beliefs, and their names come from the lesser key of Solomon (which are demons, which as far as I know = djinn in islam).
However:
- The story in Magnostadt is definitely a commentary about modern-day Israel, NOT some past myths about the Romans... Ohtaka makes this pretty clear to anyone who knows much about the situation in Palestine. "Goy" is the word used because Japanese does not have plural.
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All of what Theoderich said above is basically blood libel. All of these stories were made up by the Roman Catholics, the Germans, or current antisemites to justify the killing of Jews. This isn't a light subject. That's not the God of Judaism. The Jewish god is the same God as Christianity and Islam. Elohim/YHWH/Jehova. Please cease spreading this nonsense, it literally gets people killed.
All those stories are stated in the Bible/Tanach, so they belong to the things we (Christianity) and the Jews believe in.
None of this stories are made up by the Germans as far as I know(you may enlighten me which ones that should be),
and none of these stories were written to justify antizionism (since antisemitism would include the whole semitic tribes like Persians,Assyrians,Babylonians,Arabs,Phoenicians etc. I prefer the term antizionistic if it is solely against Jews); in contrast, The Thora and the Old Testament contain lots of stories full of brutality and blood that are in fact a kind of propaganda text that was written by the Jewish priests during their exile in Babylon, according to archaeologists and historians.
It is also a fact that the Phoenicians partly worshipped the so-called "Moloch" and child sacrifices are proven, so concerning the inhomogenity of the people in the Near East region during the bronze age, it's plausible that even some "Jews" might've practiced these rites(as an analogy, there were even people worshipping Egyptian gods in antique "Germany"; spread of belief works through all ethnic groups).
About the Purim holiday, please read the Book of Esther, it contains all details about killing the enemies of the Jews and the establishment of the Purim holiday as its consequence (The Book of Esther is also a part of the Tanach).
About the Shawuot holiday, please read the Book Exodus or the Tanach, its stated there that the "heretic" Isrealits that wanted to follow Mose and the word of Jahwe should go into the tents of their kin at night and kill them. After that, they had to pray 50 days to recieve the 10 commandments anew. In memory of these happenings, the Shawuot holiday became part of the Jewish holidays.
These are both holidays where (at least partly) the mass murder of people is "celebrated".
This is not some part of antizionistic propaganda but sheer reality of what's written in the holy scriptures of our religions.
Besides the fact that there is a word for non-Jews, there are lots of stories within the Tanach/Old Testament that glorify the deeds of the Israelits
and are extremely hostile against gojim (like that story where David had to collect foreskins of his enemies as the bride price for Sauls daughter in Samuel 1, and Saul and David are competing against each other who killed the most gojim[i.e. the Philistines]), mostly by the hand of Jahwe who decimates them through plague [e.g.Egypt] or catastrophies [Sodom&Gomorrha;Flood myth]. There is even some eugenic guidance somewhere that allows or forbids the creation of offspring between different ethnic groups...