Jonás, el no-profeta de la globalización

Abstract

Most often Judaism is perceived as a widespread localism, a closed system of minutious practicing, far away from any universalistic trend or tendency, although jewish communities and/or individuals can be found all over the world. We find them as a widespread minority along history and earth (time and space), always fighting for survivency and identity preservation together with a lack of a central and unitarian authority, even inside different branches of judaism, and the apparent unconcern towards proselitism, which offers an image of a closed community of believers, only interested in its own reality and welfare. This attitude is often set in contrast with that of Christianism or Islam, openly engaged, both of them, in religious proselitism and conversion, basically grounded on apodictic formulation: there is no salvation outside the group (Christianity or Islam). The biblical Book of Jonah shows quite a different bias in raising Judaism at the beginning of Common Era.