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In fact, many Jews began to assimilate and conform to the Greek way of life. In the year 3413 (348 BCE), Ezra the Scribe 13 (who preceded the Greeks and lived during the Persian exile) led many of the Jewish people back to Israel in an attempt to rejuvenate both the land and the Jewish way of life.
- Beginnings
- The Torah as History?
- Patriarchs in Space, Not in Time
The beginnings of ancient nations are always shrouded in mist. The social structures which gradually evolve into a “nation” do so in a slow, lengthy, and mainly unconscious process. The agonizing question “How did we become a nation?” usually finds its initial answer within the realm of myth; and it is the historian who needs to grapple with the di...
As long as the Torah Pronunced: TORE-uh, Origin: Hebrew, the Five Books of Moses. was believed to be the living word of God, queries of this kind were unthinkable; once it began to be regarded as a human document and scrutinized with modern exegetical tools, scholars needed to seek scientific corroboration. Yet even the least historically authentic...
In the Bible, the patriarchs are located in space but not in time. The background seems to be the first half of the second millennium B.C.E. Mesopotamian sources support this assumption as they establish the existence of cultural links between Ur and Haran at the time. Both towns worshipped the same deity–the moon god, Sin. These sources also refer...
Feb 15, 2017 · Where Did Creation Story Come From? The word “Jew” ultimately comes from Judah, an ancient kingdom centered in Jerusalem, in the 2nd century BCE. But how did the kingdom's Hebrew name, Yehudah (Judah in English), pronounced ye-hu-DAH , beget “Jew”?
Jewish Kabbalah is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between the unchanging, eternal God —the mysterious Ein Sof ( אֵין סוֹף, 'The Infinite') [4] [5] —and the mortal, finite universe (God's creation ). [2] [4] It forms the foundation of mystical religious interpretations within Judaism.
- Sepharad is the Ancient Hebrew Word for Spain. Since Biblical times, the Jewish people have referred to Spain as Sepharad. We see this in the Book of Obadiah, where we are told that “the exile of Jerusalem which is in Sepharad shall inherit the cities of the southland.”
- Sephardic Culture and Scholarship Rose in the 10th Century. After the decline of the Jewish communities in the Holy Land and Babylon, Jews found new life in Europe, where they blossomed into Ashkenaz and Sepharad.
- Sepharad Soon Spread All Over. In the mid 12th century, much of Spain was overrun by the Almohads, a sect of fanatical Muslims. Many Sephardic Jews fled to avoid forced conversion to Islam, planting the seeds for the Sephardic diaspora that would flourish around the world.
- Jewish Life in Spain Effectively Ended in 1492. Isabella and Ferdinand are known for completing the Reconquista, ordering conversion of the Jews and Muslims in Spain.
Dec 15, 2017 · A History of Judaism , by Martin Goodman, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 656 pages. The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years in 22 Objects from the Ashmolean Museum, by Rebecca Abrams, Ashmolean Museum, RRP£15, 232 ...
Those who helped create the field of Jewish history and the “science of Judaism,” the Wissenschaft des Judentums, which coalesced first in the early nineteenth century in the German-speaking lands and then moved on to eastern Europe, England, France, and the United States, made the millennia-long experience of the Jews in their global ...
