“The word Jew was used early to refer to the citizens of the kingdom of Judah. However, later it came to refer to all those who were descendants of Judah. … Still later the term came to mean essentially ‘anyone of the House of Israel who remained in the kingdom of Judah … after the time of the scattering of the Ten Tribes.’ Thus at the time of the Babylonian captivity … even descendants of the other tribes, including Ephraim and Manasseh, were considered by some to be Jews if they were of the house of Israel living in Jerusalem. Thus, Nephi refers to himself and his descendants as being ‘of the Jews’” (Ludlow, “Message to the Jews,” 242).