Early History Of Judaism

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mind when reading about all the other situations in
which the religion has found itself. A brief conclusion follows the
discussion.

A Place to Call Home No other religion has ever been so attached
to its birthplace as Judaism. Perhaps this is because Jews have been
exiled and restricted from this place for most of their history.
Jerusalem is not only home to Judaism, but to the Muslim and Christian
religions as well. Historically this has made it quite a busy place
for the various groups.

Jerusalem is where the temple of the Jews once stood; the only
place on the whole Earth where one could leave the confines of day to
day life and get closer to God. In 586 BCE when the temple was
destroyed, no Jew would have denied Jerusalem as being the geographic
center of the religion. From that point on, the Jewish people have
migrated around the world, but not one of them forgets the fact that
Jerusalem is where it all began. It is ...

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as to how
and when the people that would later be called Jews entered into this
civilization. But regardless of how they ultimately got there, these
pioneers of the new faith were subjected to many of the ideas and
prejudices of the time. Any new society that finds itself in an
existing social situation, can do no more than to try and integrate
into that framework. And this is exactly what the Jews did.

Early Judaism worshipped multiple gods. One of these gods was
known as Ba'al, and was generally thought-of as a 'statue god' with
certain limitations on his power. The other primary deity was called
YHWH (or Yahweh) and enjoyed a much more mysterious and ...

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