Persian Jews

In the beginning the Hebrews were divided into 12 different tribes. They each had their own leader and a single leader that was over all of the tribes. These tribes were eventually united under King Saul. He helped solve conflicts between the tribes that were caused by them being separated. Israel was the first ever united kingdom. King Saul’s reign was unsuccessful, but then soon came King David. Jerusalem was united under King David. He united all tribes of Israel under complete monarchy.…

setting mandates. However, Britain’s interest was in protecting the Suez Canal. Schafer writes how the British were after more strategic goals, “The British presence in India and the Far East depended increasingly on control of the Suez Canal and the Persian Gulf” (5). The British thus forced laws on the Palestinians and created more means for war. Overall, the beliefs dating back from the bible paved the way for the discord and along with the tension of Zionist immigrations and British…

piece titled, “Reclaiming Jew” surfaces a societal problem. Jews do not feel comfortable introducing themselves as a noun. Instead of “I am a Muslim” or “I am a Christian,” secular Jews say “I am Jewish.” It is as if using the noun is too solid and prideful, whereas the adjective feels slippery and insecure. An adjective can simply describe an aspect about something, but the noun is. The underlying question of this preference in title is: where in history did the word “Jew” become pejorative and…

The topic of the paper, is to see how Free Will has changed over centuries in Christianity as well as what the different branches of the religions believe in. I will start with the history on how Christianity got started starting from Judaism. The paper is Ancient world (1,000 BCE-600CE) Judaism, which is one of the first religions, starts with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob around 2000 BC, in the Mesopotamian town of Herran. Abraham then moved to Canaan, and then to Egypt, but started fighting…

Ezra-Nehemiah is a historical account found within the Ketuvim detailing the Israelite return to Judah after the Babylonian exile. It focuses on the desire to restore Israelite society and quickly intermarriage arises as a major issue within this restoration attempt involving the more abstract issue of identity disintegration. The fight over intermarriage in Ezra-Nehemiah is not about racial purity but, instead, is directed at Israelite assimilation and the fear of an impending loss of religious…

The history of Jews in Speyer reaches back the last 1000 years ago. Most of preindustrial history, religious minorities were the victims of persecution. Violence against religious and ethnic minorities remains a major problem in many developing countries even today. Violence against the Jews mostly was caused by factors such as religiously motivated anti-Semitism. One of the reasons why the Jews were asked to settle in Speyer was their role in money and trading business especially with the…

keeping aside, like Janaza (means burial) in Arabic is derived from Persian word ganj denotes a treasure. These manuscripts dated from 870 CE to 19th century, contain approximately 1000 years of information about the Jewish communities of Cairo (Schechter). Genizah contains the largest and most diverse collection of medieval manuscripts in the world in different languages, which includes Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, and Persian. The discovery of the Cairo Genizah in 1896 was one of…

empires which the Jews had several conflicts with was the Roman empire. The Roman empire initially came in contact with the Jewish people when Pompey the Great laid siege to Judea and the temple, making the land of the Jews a client kingdom, or a native tribe who joins the Roman empire in order to self-preserve itself. Since then, the Jewish people were slowly provoked into several conflicts and revolts against the Roman empire which led to further harsh oppression of the Jews in the empire.…

587 B.C.E. the Babylonians began to exile the Jews. Approximately fifty years later, the Persians allowed the Jews to return to their homeland; however, it was not long before they would be affected again. In 70 CE, the Romans destroyed the 2nd temple and exiled the Jews for the second time. Throughout these times and still today many Jews have lived in Diaspora and thus have lived scattered around the world. The ¬¬¬constant displacement and anguish Jews experienced caused them to flee their…

political systems. All these three places evolve in different ways ones faster than others. That’s why here I will be talking about religion, political, and laws. First, Greece had the biggest political change. The Persian king had a lot to do with the evolution. Cyrus the Persian King “embraced imperial monarchy a model of government while striving to expand his wealth and territorial holdings” There was a pivotal event in Cyrus reign. That was the conquest of Babylon in 539 B.C.E. At…