Religions

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Monotheism is a belief or doctrine that there’s only one real God. Monotheistic religions originated from the Middle East. They include Christianity, Judaism, Baha’i, Sikhism, and Islam. With the issues of religion, every tradition appears to have established upon, reacted to, or borrowed from the religious practice that closely preceded it. It is evident as Buddhism and Jainism arise from a specific historical setting within Hindu India. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam trace origin from a historical figure known as Abraham and comprehend themselves as intensely related to the context of the Semites (World_history_book2 44). All of the three faiths share ten universally held similarities and positions. Some of these similarities include believing that there is only one God who created the world. However, with each convention, there is large variance and range of techniques utilized in practicing these positions, which is well-lit in doctrine and conveyed in rituals.
Question 1
Jews identify themselves as a religious entity, an ethnicity, a political entity, or as a combination of the three. Religious entity means Judaism proper while a political entity means Zionism and particularly categorizing with the Israel State, then as ethnicity means a cultural tradition passed on via the generations (World_history_book2 48). When they identify themselves as a combination of the three, it means that they believe in one God and they are the God’s chosen people whose doctrine is a family faith.

Question 2
Tanakh has three parts that include Teaching or law, prophet, and writings. Tanakh forms the Jewish identity because it’s a pool of texts that was initially compiled and conserved as the Jewish’s sanctified books. Again, Hebrew Bible is the account of the dealings of God with the Jews who collectively referred themselves as Israel the chosen people hence the identity.
Question 3
Talmud is an explanation on the rules enclosed in the Torah. The Talmud also holds Agadda which are the stories written in coding style or metaphor and need context and background to be adequately comprehended. Midrash is assortments of Agadda that may not or may get incorporated in the Talmud. Torah is the real five books directly dictated by God to Moses. Therefore, that’s how Talmud and Midrash relate to Torah.
Works Cited
World_history_book2. “Why study the religions of the world?” 2010.