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Judaism -- What Is It and Where Did It Come From?

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Origin of the Israelites

The notion that there was this mass, huge migration of hebrew slaves out of egypt doesn't hold up. If any exodus did happen at all, it could only have been a small one. There is reason to think that that there was a small exodus, and that that is part of the roots of the israelite a chiefdom and its laws and customs. The name of this god is something like awa or away. Is actually not known what the correct original pronunciation was. Its represented by four letters in the hebrew scriptures, which it's customarily taboo to say this name out loud at all.

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