The craziest part about the word Holocaust is that the only time it shows up in the Bible it’s to refer to a “burnt offering” of charred flesh and fat offered to YHWH in Genesis.
So then how did that term come to be used by jews for that event? Has any Jew actually offered up an explanation? If it's a word.that doesn't even exist outside a few rare contexts, then they had to have chosen it for a reason. In fact that was probably THE reason. Something no infrequently used it's basically a novel word.
'The Jews' use the term Shoah, which means catastrophe. It's historians who use holocaust. Not sure why. Possibly because the bodies were burned afterwards.
If I had to guess, it's to promote themselves to a separate special class,above everybody else.
Racism is bad, but antisemitism is super duper extra bad.
Genocide is bad, but the Holocaust was super duper extra bad.
Whatever the topic, having a separate term allows them to make the topic about them. It's narcissism.
The craziest part about the word Holocaust is that the only time it shows up in the Bible it’s to refer to a “burnt offering” of charred flesh and fat offered to YHWH in Genesis.
'Holocaust' is the Greek term for when the whole animal is sacrificed rather than just the bones and the fat.
So then how did that term come to be used by jews for that event? Has any Jew actually offered up an explanation? If it's a word.that doesn't even exist outside a few rare contexts, then they had to have chosen it for a reason. In fact that was probably THE reason. Something no infrequently used it's basically a novel word.
'The Jews' use the term Shoah, which means catastrophe. It's historians who use holocaust. Not sure why. Possibly because the bodies were burned afterwards.