When was judaism founded?
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Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people with around 15 million followers as of 2006 [1]. It is one of the first recorded monotheistic faiths and one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced today. The values and history of the Jewish people are a major part of the foundation of other Abrahamic religions such as Samaritanism, Bahá'íism, Islam, and Christianity .\n\nJudaism has seldom, if ever, been monolithic in practice, and has not had any centralized authority or binding dogma. Despite this, Judaism in all its variations has remained tightly bound to a number of religious principles, the most important of which is the belief in a single, omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent, transcendent God, who created the universe and continues to be involved in its governance. According to Jewish thought, the God who created the world established a covenant with the Jewish people, and revealed his laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. The practice of Judaism is devoted to the study and observance of these laws and commandments, as written in the Torah.\n\nJudaism does not fit easily into conventional Western categories, such as religion, ethnicity, or culture, in part because most of its 4,000-year history predates the rise of Western culture, or occurred outside of the West. During this time, Jews have experienced slavery, anarchic and theocratic self-government, conquest, occupation, and exile; they have been in contact with, and have been influenced by ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenic cultures, as well as modern movements such as the Enlightenment (see Haskalah) and the rise of nationalism. Thus, Talmud professor Daniel Boyarin has argued that "Jewishness disrupts the very categories of identity, because it is not national, not genealogical, not religious, but all of these, in dialectical tension."\n\nAccording to traditional Judaism and modern scholars, a number of qualities distinguish Judaism from the other religions that existed when it first emerged. One characteristic was monotheism. The significance of this idea, according to critical historian Yehezkal Kaufman, lies in that Judaism holds that God created, and cares about, humankind. In polytheistic religions, humankind is often created by accident, and the gods are primarily concerned with their relations with other gods, not with people.
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Most likely, magic was developed in Babylon, but hardly as late as 7BC. Most likely 3,500BC during the building of the tower of Babel. However, for an actual account, read Exodus when Moses went head to head with  Janis and Jambres.
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None of the above it was done by rabbi's. It you read it you will know that Judaism is not from God or of God. The religion of Judaism is a deceiver.
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christ lived long before the founding of islam and christianity.\n\nyou can believe that christ was a jew, because that is what he was.
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There were quite a few Jewish sects in that part of the world around that time. Many of them were messianic sects, such as the Essenes - some of which had turned from traditional Judaism. In this period in history it was not uncommon to hear tales that this person or that person was the promised Messiah. Christianity was a sect that became firmly established by going cosmopolitan - after Paul promoted it in Italy and Greece and blended it with their mythology of virgin birth, the hierarchy of deities, and a fiery Hades place of punishment, etc., none of which had any connection to Jesus's religion (Judaism).
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>>>>I'm just curious who was historically the first on the land….\n\nThe trouble is that the question makes no sense. Both historically and mythologically the Jews were Arabs. They aren’t a different people, they are simply a different religious sect. Prior to the rise of Islam around 1500 years ago the Middle East and North Africa was home to thousands of different religions, and one of those religions was Judaism. The different sects were in a state of near perpetual war with their neighbours as well as with the great powers like Babylon and Egypt.\n\nFrom a purely historical perspective it seems that one of the numerous religious sects living in Palestine gained the upper hand, either through theocratic means or through warfare or a combination of the two. Gradually they absorbed all the other people of that region and formed the state of Israel.\n\nBear in mind also that even at the time of Christ present day Israel wasn’t entirely Jewish occupied or controlled. Much of it was in Samaria, the Samaritans being a Hebrew but not Jewish sect that didn’t accept the absolute sanctity of the temple.\n\nSo as you can see it’s not a simple case of saying the Arabs or Jews were there first. Historically Jews are Arabs and Jews never historically occupied all of what is now Israel.\n\n>>>> were the jews exiled or chased out or volunteerily left?\n\nA little from column A, a little from column B.\n\nRemember how at the time of Jesus Israel had been occupied by the Romans?  Needless to say the Jews didn’t like that, and the situation was further aggravated by the Romans doing various stupid and offensive things. Eventually the people of Jerusalem and much of Judeaea got fed up and rebelled. A lot of Romans were killed, a lot more Jews were killed, a lot of Jews killed themselves rather than be captured. \n\nThe Romans ascribed the unrest to a religious source and decided that enough was enough and The Temple was torn down. \n\nWithout the temple to sacrifice at the Jews had no strong reason to cling to Israel, and combined with Roman persecution they mostly decided to leave in several waves over the next few hundred years.\n\nSo you could say that it was a voluntary Exodus, but it was just as much a refugee movement.\n\n>>>>Why did the international community choose the land in dispute now?\n\nBasically because\n\n1)It is the traditional Jewish homeland and a lot of Jews wanted it back.\n2)Jews had a lot of political clout in Washington after the war.\n3) Jews had been regularly slaughtered in Europe over the last 2000 years, and the recent Nazi holocaust was by far the worst example. A lot of people tjought that it would be a good idea not let it keep happening, and decided the best way to do that would be to give the Jews their own country outside Europe.\n\nCombine those three factors and you see a simple solution to all problems/ The fact that Palestine was a British colony/protectorate at the time and Britain wanted to offload all its colonies as fast as possible helped no end.\n\nBenji Man  wrote:\n>>>>>Africa is the cradle of civ so I will go with an early nomadic african people.\n\nAfrica is not the cradle of civilisation. Asia is without a doubt the cradle of civilisation with a second nucleus in Central America.
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The word "Judaism" is related to the word "Jewish", and to the name "Judah", though it's not so obvious in English.  Here's how it happened:\n\n"Judaism" is derived from the name "Judah" -- it was used to refer to the religion of the 'people of Judah'.  "Judah" was one of the larger, more powerful tribes of the people of Israel, the tribe from which King David and his descendants come.  Most of the Israelite tribes to the north split off to form their own kingdom after the death of David's son Solomon (called "Israel" in the Bible, while the southern kingdom is called "Judah").  \n\nAfter the Assyrians destroyed the Northern Kingdom (Israel) late in the 8th century BC, only the kingdom of Judah remained.   They were the ones who fell to Nebuchadnezzar and many of whom were exiled to Babylonia. in the 6th century B.C.   And they were the ones who later re-established a kingdom.    Remnants of the other tribes joined them, but the tribe of Judah was still central, hence the people were known by this name.  \n\nA literal translation of the TERM used from them might be "Jud-ish" (compare the term "Judean").  In fact, most European languages use a form something like that.  German is Juedisch.     What causes confusion is the fact that English lost the "d" and ended up with the word"JEWISH", a form that is not obviously related to "Judah"/"Judean".\n\n(For what it's worth, the language spoken by many Jewish people in Eastern Europe is a dialect of GERMAN --not Hebrew-- called Juedisch, or in English, "Yiddish")\n\nOne other note: there was in the first century a lot more variety in "Judaism" (or perhaps we should say "Judaism-s").  The form we now identify as Judaism was the Rabbinic form that gained the ascendancy after the Temple was destroyed in AD 70.  (Remember too that Christianity was considered a Jewish sect in the first century; thus what we think of today as "Judaism" and "Christianity" were in a sense born at about the same time, two distinct offshoots of one tree.)
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If you want a full answer, you have to visit "Judaism 101" at www.jewfaq.com
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http://www.history.com/minisites/hanukkah/viewPage?pageId=730\n\nLoads of info here
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There was apparently a small sect of Jews who followed a rabbi they called "Christ" which would be really odd since "Christ" is Greek.\n\nBut, ignoring Hebrews who used Greek to describe their rabbi, in 325 CE (ad), Judaism was grafted into paganism by Roman Emperor Constantine and became known as "Christianity" although Constantine never referred to his brand new religion as "Christian," he called it the "Universal (Catholic means universal in Latin) Religion."\n\nThe original "Christianity," assuming it actually existed, died long before Constantine invented his brand new religion and banned its practice (if it existed in the first place).\n\nAnd anyone who refused to adopt Constantine's brand new religion was executed.\n\nThat's a summary of what most people call "Christianity."
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Fact: Judaism came first\nThen Christianity(which Jesus brought forth)\nThen Islam\nThis is a fact undisputed......The Quran is quoted from the Bible in many places but changes alot of things that are taught to the people(Laws that God made) \nI have spoke with many Muslims that state that the Religion has been around since Adam's time? Not true....If this was the case then why was the Islamic Religion not mentioned in the Torah or in the Bible?..\nYou have to read the Quran for your answer:However Jews and Christians are held as 2nd class to the Muslims\nNot all Muslims are bad as well as not all Jews,Christians are bad...But you have BAD apples in every Religion out there
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That is  a very good question and the answer is a little confusing. The problem is that people often get confused between Judiasm and Jews. To be Jewish does NOT mean you follow the Jewish religion, instead it is a group of people. Kind of like just because you are Indian does not mean you are hindu, or if you are arabic it does not mean you are muslim (unless it is the law of your country) \n\nNow before the birth of Christ, the Jewish(reffering to the group of people) did follow the same religion, which can be called the "Jewish" religion, because they where Jew and that was their religion. Now, before Christ was born, as you know from reading the scriptures, their where prophesies about his coming. Some believed and some did not believe he was coming. When Jesus Christ was born he taught many new things and gave new revelations. Thus came Christianity, though if it was called that at the time, I am not sure. Those who did not believe he was the Savior and still live by the ways before Christ and do not follow His new teachings broke off and are today reffered to as "Jewish"\n\nThose who followe Christ are Christians. Those who are Jewish by blood are not neccesarily Jewish by religian, You can be jewish by religion even if you are not Jewish by blood. Jesus was born to Jewish parents and He is how Christianity started. Remember, back then Jewish and Christianity were intertwined and not distinctively seperate.\n\nI know it is confusing. But basically, the coming of Christ and the belief in whet He taught is what seperates the 2 religions.
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and one more time those who know nothing of Judaism or the Bible give answers....\n\nAdaM and Eve were not Jews, showing that Gd cares for all people and not just the Jews. \n\nThe first Jew was Abraham whose descendants, and those who over the last 4,000 years converted to Judaism, were Jews. Even in the Bible, Mordechai, in the Book of Esther, who was NOT from the tribe of Judah, is called a Jew, so one does not have to be from the tribe of Judah to be a Jew:::\n\n          Esther 2:5  Now in Shushan the palace there was \n          a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son  \n          of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a \n          Benjamite; \n\nBut Judaism, the covenant Gd made with Abraham, reconfirmed with His covenant with Isaac, reconfirmed with His covenant with Jacob, and on and on, began with Abraham.
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OK, you need to be specific. Here ya go...\n\n A Hebrew kingdom established in 1000 B.C. was later split into the kingdoms of Judah and Israel; they were subsequently invaded by Babylon in 586 B.C. - That was the end of ANCIENT Israel. But not the end of Israel.
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hold on... i've seen places where you can read some midrashim online... gotta find it though\n\nhere:\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/index.htm\n\napparently adam and chava looked 20 when they were created :)
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From Now To The End Of Time This Day June 25 Shall Be Known As " Thank A Jew Day" In the United States and Japan.\nSo Be Now By Proclamation of Yahoo Answers.
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What is the name of that religion that Adam and Eve had when they walked with God in the cool of the evening? I forget the name they called it.  Anyway, that was the oldest religion. Read the first couple of chapters of Genesis.