Judaism
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"The role of Judaism in the story of humankind is a bit like the role of Freud's mother in modern Western history. For better or worse, Sigmund Freud had immense influence on the science, culture, art and folk wisdom of the modern West. It is also true that without Freud’s mother, we wouldn’t have had Freud, and that Freud’s personality, ambitions and opinions were likely shaped to a significant extent by his relations with his mother – as he would be the first to admit. But when writing the history of the modern West, nobody expects an entire chapter on Freud’s mother. Similarly, without Judaism you would not have had Christianity, but that doesn’t merit giving much importance to Judaism when writing the history of the world."--21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018) by Yuval Harari |
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Judaism is a world religion tracing its origin to the Hebrew people of the ancient Middle-East, as documented in their religious writings, the Torah or Old Testament.
See also
- History of the Jews in the Arabian Peninsula
- Anti-Judaism
- Frankism
- Jewish views of religious pluralism
- Judaism by country
- Judeo-Christian
- List of converts to Judaism
- Sabbateanism
- Secular Jewish culture
- United States military chaplain symbols