RELI 1710 Quiz: Jewish History.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Religion
• Course: RELI 1710
• Professor: Zeba Crook

Document Summary

Fundamental fact that all religions change: like people as they move through time and they experience history. When one religion encounters (is in war with, procreates with) another, it"s changed. Judaism (in some form) has been there at the start, since much of the early forms of civilization. Judaism is very tiny as a religion in a graph of world religion s by percentage (2007). To tell the history of the jews is to tell the history of the world. Historical foundation of the other, much bigger religions (christianity and islam). Vocabulary of framework and how we see god. Numbers hide stories christianity and islam are proselatizing religion actively seeks to convert. At all points in history it has been possible to convert to judaism it"s just never seeked to convert people. Christianity and islam grow the way they do for historical reasons. Christianity would have always grown bigger than judaism because of its converting nature.