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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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What Is the First Commandment of Jews?

The first known written reference we have to the existence of a collection of people called jews is the mernepta stella, which was found in egypt. A covenant meaning a contract establishing a special relationship between this particular people and their god. And these various practices that mark and shape jews as a distinct people have, over time, been attached to a corps idea of a covenant. So i'm going to try to talk a little bit about what we know, based on archaeology and our best historical guesses, of where this collective of people call jews came on.

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