What are the countries of origin for Judaism?

Answer 1

Some believe that Judaism originated with Abraham, while others say Moses, giving a range of possibilities for the country or region of origin for judaism. However scholars say that monotheistic Judaism was really introduced by King Josiah of Judah, during the Deuteronomistic reforms of the seventh century BCE.

Answer 2

Judaism was founded in the Fertile Crescent.
Abraham (18th century BCE) was born in Ur (Mesopotamia; now Iraq), where he first repudiated idolatry. He then sojourned in Harran (Syria) for several years, and then lived most of his life in Canaan (Israel).
It was in Canaan that Abraham lived most of his life, made a covenant with God (Genesis ch.15), and raised a family to be the center of carrying on his traditions (Genesis 18:19).

Abraham's family carried on his teachings voluntarily. Judaism as a binding, permanent entity, was set forth between God and the Israelite nation descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob at Mount Sinai in the time of Moses (Exodus ch.19, ch.24, and 34:27).All of the above places are in the ancient Fertile Crescent.

See also the Related Links.Link: Where did the Jews come from?
Link: How Judaism was founded

Link: Archaeology and the Hebrew Bible

Link: Did Josiah add or change anything?

Answer 3

As the name implies, Judaism originated in Judah, a small Hebrew enclave to the west of the Dead Sea. It had its origins in what is now known to have been a polytheistic Hebrew religion substantially shared with its northern neighbour, Israel. Tradition eventually blotted out memory of the polytheistic past, but that past re-emerges in the findings of Archaeology and hermeneutic study of the Hebrew scriptures.

It was probably during the reign of King Josiah in the seventh century BCE that a form of monotheistic Judaism was impressed on the Samaritans in what had formerly been the northern kingdom of Israel. Judaism also spread by diaspora to Babylon and Egypt, especially with the Babylonian conquest. Under the Maccabees in the second century BCE, the Idumeans and Galileans were forcibly converted to Judaism. By this stage, most of the Palestinian region was at least nominally Jewish.