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Judaism—Yahadut in Hebrew—is first and foremost a religion. The term Judaism—Judaismes in the Greek form—is first found in the Jewish-Helenistic literature of the first century as a synonym for ‘the religion of the Israelites’.1 The same sense is found in St Paul’s Epistles to the Galatians—‘And profited in the Jews’ religion’.2
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A. Maoz, ‘State and Religion In Israel’, in International Perspectives on Church and State (M. Mor (ed.), Omaha, 1993), 239, 242.
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Maoz, A. (2004). Judaism as a Source of Human Rights. In: Walden, R. (eds) Racism and Human Rights. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6031-7_5
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