Are the Jews of today the Jews from the Bible?

Answer 1

I will give a yes and a no answer. First, there's a continuous Jewish community from biblical times to the present. The history of that community is amply documented. We know where Jews lived in biblical times, and we can trace migrations of Jews (some voluntary, some forced) from those biblical communities to the present. This is traced in both Jewish and non-Jewish sources. So, yes.

No? If you're a racist, interested in racial purity and not in cultural continuity, you'll notice that Jews have been accepting converts since the time of Moses. He married a Midianite woman. Then there was Ruth, the Moabite ancestor of King David. With 2000 years of occasional conversions, not to mention the kind of the occasional rapacious treatment that minority communities have suffered throughout human history, there's no such thing as a pure-bred Jewish race. Some Christians, particularly in denominations from the former Confederate States, have a bizarre reading of The Bible that suggests that God insists on racial purity. No Jewish authority I have encountered upholds this view.