Word: judaism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sever 5. He began by briefly outlining the geography of the country inhabited by the Semites and the history of the various branches of the Semitic peoples. These peoples claim a large share of popular interest, for they have given the world an alphabet and the three great religions-Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism...
...Semites are a well-defined group of peoples inhabiting Western Asia, with a history extending from the remotest past to the present day. They have done an important work in civilization, giving to the world the alphabet, monotheism, the Bible, the Koran, and the three religious-Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They are therefore of permanent interest to students of language, literature, history, religion, and art. The four informal lectures announced for this week and the next are intended to give a general view of the language and the literature, especially the latter, of four of the chief members...
Macmillan and Co. have in press a volume of "Studies in Judaism," by Mr. S. Shechter, Reader in Rabbinic in the University of Cambridge, which deal in a scholarly manner with many somewhat obscure topics in connection with the Jewish faith...
...English edition of Prof. Toy's "Judaism and Christianity" has been issued in London...
...more and more evident that neither ancient nor modern culture can be properly understood without a careful estimate of the Semitic element. The significance of Semitic religious ideas is familiar to us; however we may explain it, the fact remains remarkable that the three monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are of Semitic origin and that they today (if we except Confucianism in China). control the progressive nations of the earth. To understand the beginnings of Greek art we must go in part to Babylonia and Assyria. Our alphabet came from a Semitic community. The Phoenicians were...