Samaritan, Egyptian, and the like. First of all, Israel in their Hebrew speaks of the individual Israelite or Jew only in the setting of Israel the people or nation or family, so it would be difficult for them to formulate Jew versus Greek in terms of individuated person. The category is collective, even though it yields language to cover individuals. Any contrast involving an individual and his or her personal identity is beyond the conception of sages. They think in terms of large-scale entities.