(November 26, 2021 at 1:00 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There -was no- Judaism, if contemporary Judaism is the mold, before that defining event that so much of the ot is about.
Just to be clear, what you are saying is that before the captivity, before the judeans were taken to Babylon, there was no judaism?
So if the name of their religion is not judaism, then what was it?
Wikipedia mentions a date of circa 597 BCE as the first deportation and then there are 2 others a few years later.
There is Yahwism
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwism
So besides Yahwism and Judaism, I have not heard what the name of their religion is.
(November 26, 2021 at 1:00 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The arc of a peoples history with future triumph a given.
I’m not sure what you mean.
(November 26, 2021 at 1:00 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I think I’d say that they don’t actually share any foundation.
Oldandeasilyconfused says:
Judaism is the first of the three Abrahamic faiths. The other two being Christianity and Islam. The Prophet Abraham is revered in all three faiths. The three faiths all worship the same one god.
So, if it is the first, then it is the first in the evolutionary line.
The people who invented christianity, they didn’t invent it on their own, right? Because otherwise, what is Genesis all the way to Malachi doing in the christian Bible? That’s 39 books.
I’m not claiming that christians took every jewish thought, every one of their books and inserted it into the Bible.
When you are evolving, it is ok to trash some of the books, some lines, some ideas.
The Quran or Koran is different. The stories are fragmentary. For example, it is still possible to see Genesis in there, but the lines are sprinkled here and there. Their Genesis is not an exact match for the jewish Genesis.
When it comes to mormons, they straight up give you the KJV of the Bible. They also give you the Book if Mormon which they consider the most perfect, uncorrupted holy book of all.
