RELI: Judaism

Archaeology

Philology

Canaan

Merneptah Stele

Cuneiform

Ugaritic texts

Monotheism

Monolatry

Babylonian captivity

Tanakh

Torah

Pentateuch

Mosaic authorship

Documentary Hypothesis

Diaspora

Assyrian Captivity

Babylonian Captivity

Achaemenid Empire

Second Temple Judaism

Decree of Cyrus

Deutero-Isaiah

Cyrus cylinder

Zoroastrianism

an ancient Persian monotheistic religion founded by the prophet Zoroaster, which centers on the belief in Ahura Mazda, a supreme God who represents good, in an ongoing cosmic struggle against evil

Ahura Mazda

the supreme, benevolent, creator god in Zoroastrianism

Elephantine Papyri 

ancient Aramaic documents found on the island of Elephantine in Egypt, dating to the 5th century BCE

Imperial Aramaic

lingua franca of the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian Empires, and Achaemenid Empires

Lingua franca

a common language or form of communication used between people who do not share a native language

Passover

Yehud Medinata

Sukkot

Alexander the Great

Hellenism

Koine Greek

Ptolemaic Egypt

Seleucid Kingdom

Philo of Alexandria

Allegorical Interpretation

Septuagint

Dead Sea Scrolls

Samaritans

Maccabean Revolt

Hasmonean Dynasty

Hanukkah

Herod’s Temple

Sanhedrin

The Three Pilgrimage Festivals

Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot

Zealot

Rabbi

Aniconism

Rabbinic Judaism

Mishnah

Halakha

Midrash

Talmud

Targum

Babylonian Academies

Masoretes

Masoretic Text

Pact of Umar

Dhimmi

“protected person”, religious minority living in an Islamic state

Karaites

Al-Andalus

Aristotelianism

Kabbalah

Sephardi

Ashkenazi

Ghetto

Reconquista

Alhambra Decree

Pogrom

Blood Libel

Converso

Humanism

Shabbatai Zvi

Dönme

Enlightenment

Haskalah

maskilim

Moses Mendelssohn

Hasidism

Ba’al Shem Tov

Grand Sanhedrin

Wissenschaft des Judentums

Reform Judaism

mechitza

Progressive revelation

Orthodox Judaism

Derekh eretz

anti-Semitism

anti-Judaism

Pale of Settlement

pogrom

Yiddish

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Dreyfus Affair

Zionism

Hibbat Zion

assimilation

Nuremberg Laws

Kristallnacht