Judaism in the Hebrew Bible? The transition from ancient Israelite religion to Judaism

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

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ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO CONSENSUS concerning the point in time when it is appropriate to begin applying the terms "Judaism" or "Jew" to historical realities, there is a very strong tendency to apply them to the historical realities of the Babylonian exile or later, but generally not to those of the preexilic period.1 S. D. Fraade would put the beginning of Judaism still later. Noting that the terms ioudaioi and ioudaismos are first attested in the third and second pre-Christian centuries, respectively, he suggests that Judaism ...

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