Judaism can be referred to all culture, race, and religion. It is hard to distinguish between all three categories because from different aspects “Judaism” can have a different definition. Judaism is a culture that developed the world oldest monotheistic religion, and in ancient time the religion traditions was practice more actively in one race only other than open up to all races in the world. The culture and religion of Judaism are closely relative just like other religions, but now in the modern world it is hard to call Judaism a race anymore.
The founder of Judaism Abraham covenant with God and Moses Ten commandments are the foundation of Judaism’s values and believes as a culture and a religion. Following the Ten Commandments, believe in YHWH as the god and go though circumcised, can have in exchange of powerful nation and protection. To say Judaism is also a culture and religion because a group of people shares the common understanding, values and practice same traditions. However, it is hard to define Judaism as a particular race because a person can be a Jew but not born in a Jewish family. In addition, a person how is born s a Jew can be secular, who doesn’t follow the Jewish traditions. Judaism is still some how related to race because the children who’s mother is a Jew than children will be a Jew also. Judaism is a great example to see the development of a religion change thought out the time.
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Janice, I think you did a nice job laying out some of the historical aspects of Judaism and tying them into your argument. I am a little confused by this statement though: "To say Judaism is also a culture and religion because a group of people shares the common understanding, values and practice same traditions." I feel that it describes a religion more than an ethnic group or culture. Could you clarify what you were trying to say here?
ReplyDeleteJanice, I agree that it is difficult to define which one it could be and I also agree that it is hard to define it as a race. But at the end when you said "Judaism is still some how related to race because the children who’s mother is a Jew than children will be a Jew also," couldn't that be considered ethnic?
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