Judaism has a long history and has changed profoundly through the last few millennia. Ultimately, Jewish religion and culture originated with Abraham about 4,000 years ago.
Judaism.
Judaism.
Judaism and whoever accepts the Torah as fact.
An adherent of Judaism as a religion or culture. A member of the widely dispersed people originally descended from the ancient Hebrews and sharing an ethnic heritage based on Judaism.
Noah is not considered a Hebrew. All of mankind following the flood is descended from Noah. Noah was 10 generations before Abraham who was the father of Judaism.
Let us suppose that Abram was a real historical person who founded Judaism. Then we could regard him as the spiritual ancestor of those who now follow Judaism or its daughter religions, Christianity and Islam.
* There about 15 million Jews (adherents of Judaism) in the world. * By no means all of them are Holocaust survivors or descended from Holocaust survivors.
First, there's no such thing as a "Jewish race". That being said, according to the teachings of Judaism, Jews are descended from Isaac.
Jewish: someone who practices the religion of Judaism or, if secular, someone who is descended from Jewish populations of Europe, Asia, or Africa. Dutch: someone who is from the Netherlands (Holland).
Abraham was descended from Sham, the son of Noah who were allegedly members of the Horite Tribe. Abraham's father was named Terah, and his mother was named Amathlaah. Terah and Amathiaah were allegedly half-brother, half-sister.
No. Judaism claims that Judaism had not yet come into the world during Adam's time, but that after his expulsion from the Garden of Eden led a righteous life. The term "Jew" is usually reserved for those people who are descended of the Tribe of Judah and the remaining Levites who lived among the Judeans.
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