Jews are Romans

I realized this when I was thinking about Juvenal and mens sana in sana corpore. Both Jews and Romans are driven to thought and action, both practical thought and action and thoughts and actions in service of something greater. The joining place is that Jews name the unknowable as the unknowable while the Romans had an unnamed unknowable in which they maintained forms of public belief and worship that masked a significantly deeper and more widespread sense these represented something else that was not nameable to or by them. This was reflected in their obsession with how to live as a Roman, with how a person should act as a person. I have more to say about this but this is enough for now.