Judaism has the third most followers in the world. Judaism is
also the oldest monotheistic religion in the world. The history of Judaism
cannot be separated from that of the Christian people. Judaism started when
Abraham was called to leave his home in Ur and travel to Palestine and Israel,
the land God promised to give Abraham’s descendants. The second covenant was
made when Moses led the Jews out of slavery in Egypt back to Israel. At Mt.
Horeb, God gave the Jewish people the 10 Commandments and the other rules they
must live by. The Torah was the book of the Jewish people, which are the first
five books of the Bible.
Judaism and Christianity had the same beginnings. The Christian people
started as Jewish people and converted to Christianity when Jesus came to Earth.
The Jewish people didn’t believe that Jesus was the chosen Messiah that was to
come to Earth and save them all. They didn’t believe that he was the promised
Messiah from God.
After the spilt with the Muslims, this lead to the demise of the
Babylonian Jewish community because of the demise the Jews in the area moved to
Spain, northwest Africa, and Egypt. With the move they took their religion with
them and were preaching the word to the people in the area. The Jewish community
flourished in Spain until the Christians engaged in a “reconquest” of Spain and
forced Jews to convert to Christianity. In their attempts to stay crypto-Jews,
many conversos, practiced
Jewish rituals in secret. The Jews were kicked out of Spain and were forced to
move to places like Italy and countries of the Ottoman Empire, spreading their
religion there to the people.
Judaism moved whenever they were forced to move out of an area. The
people never wanted war with anyone so they did what everyone wanted. The taught
the word of God when they moved from area to are.
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