The first Israelites were found in 1030 BCE and the kingdom split in 930 BCE. The Romans took over in 63 BCE. The term ‘Jew’ comes from the Jews homeland of-of Judea. The Jew came from three million people from when he accepted the Torah now there is only about 10 million. Even if the Holocaust didn't happen, we might have had six million or more Jews living the number of Jews increases very slowly compared to most other races like the Chinese had 667.1 million in 1960 and now they have 1.3 billion. They grew more than 20 times faster than the Jews.
The main way Judaism was different from other religions of the time is that’s other religions started by one witness and for the Jews, millions of Jews saw many miracles occur. Another thing that makes the Jews stick out from all the other nations is that we only believe in one god. There were two common practices/views that existed before Judaism. One, they sacrificed people to give to God and two, they
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The major beliefs of Christianity are that Jesus was the son of god. Another belief is that God sent him to earth to save humanity. They believe that there is life after earthly death, Baptism. The gospels saw Jesus after he died walking on water and they all wrote the same exact story about how they individually saw him walking on water and they spread the story through the Romans. Christianity was supposed to be a side sect of the Jews, but the Jews didn’t want there to sects so they created their own religion based on Jesus's story. There are two types of testaments the old one and new one. The new and Old Testament is a sacred text that is related to Christianity and connects it to Judaism. In the New Testament, there was a lesson on life, how the first church looks, symbolic stories, and laws. The old testament is the Torah which is the stories of how Judaism developed from Abraham to Moses to the