Religion & World Beliefs · Faiths
Judaism
The oldest Abrahamic faith (~15 million people): covenant and the Hebrew Bible, Torah and Talmud, the Temple's destruction and rabbinic Judaism, practice (Shabbat, kashrut, holidays), modern movements, and Jewish history from exile to Israel.
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Prereqs: Ancient Near East. Next: Christianity; Islam. Sources: Nicholas de Lange, *An Introduction to Judaism* (2nd ed., 2010); Simon Schama, *The Story of the Jews* (2013); Pew Research Center (2021).Next: 1. History