RELI 1710 Midterm: Judaism
9 Oct 2017
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All religions change sometimes negative (fighting with other religions). Contact with other religions changes religions (borrowing ideas). More time elapsed between the founding of judaism and the founding of islam than the founding of christianity and the present day. History of the jews is so long; telling their history is like telling the history of humanity. Christians make up 33. 3% of the world; muslims make up. The israelites have interacted with canaanites, assyrians, ethiopians, babylonians, Persians, ishmaelites, greeks, pagan romans, christian romans, and muslim empires. The jews have intermarried practically all of those races . Who is jewish: religious judaism - a woman must be jewish to have a jewish child (conservative) if you have a jewish mother, you"re jewish even if you convert (genetic?) Lacks central authority: ethnic judaism don"t follow religion but call themselves jewish cultural, sephardic jews from spain, north africa, palestine (ethnic groups of modern jews, ashkenazi northern/eastern europe, russia (ethnic groups of modern.
