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What Is The Geographical Background of Judaism

Judaism originated in the ancient near eastern region of Canaan, which is now Israel and Palestine. It emerged from the beliefs and practices of the people known as "Israel". Throughout history, Jewish leaders expressed different attitudes toward having a Jewish homeland and independence. As Zionism led Jews to return to Israel, these differing views had to confront the new reality of a Jewish state. Judaism had a major influence on Western civilization through Christianity and influenced the development of both Christianity and Islam.

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What Is The Geographical Background of Judaism

Judaism originated in the ancient near eastern region of Canaan, which is now Israel and Palestine. It emerged from the beliefs and practices of the people known as "Israel". Throughout history, Jewish leaders expressed different attitudes toward having a Jewish homeland and independence. As Zionism led Jews to return to Israel, these differing views had to confront the new reality of a Jewish state. Judaism had a major influence on Western civilization through Christianity and influenced the development of both Christianity and Islam.

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What is the geographical background of Judaism?

This religion is rooted in the ancient near eastern region of Canaan (which today constitutes Israel and the Palestinian territories). Judaism emerged from the beliefs and practices of the
people known as “Israel”.
It is said that the Jewish people has had a surfeit of history but not enough geography. Deprived of its independence, expelled from its homeland, and dispersed among other nations, Jewish
communities internalized different socio-cultural manners and customs. Throughout history, Jewish leaders -political and rabbinical -expresssed various attitudes toward territoriality and political
aspirations for Jewish independence. As Zionism and the return of Jews to the Land of Israel became a real movement, those different attitudes had to confront a new reality, in which Jewish
history meets Jewish geography. This paper discusses the encounter of a Jewish culture that developed under Diaspora conditions with the new reality of Jewish territoriality and sovereignty.
What is the cultural influence of Judaism?
Judaism influenced the development of Christianity and Islam, and had a major influence on Western civilization - Christianity, the eventually dominant religious faith of the West, was in large
part a child of the Hebrew religion.
What influenced the development of Judaism?
Judaism emerged from the beliefs and practices of the people known as “Israel”. What is considered classical, or rabbinical, Judaism did not emerge until the 1st century CE. Judaism traces
its origins to the covenant God made with Abraham and his lineage—that God would make them a sacred people and give them a land.

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