Essay - History Beginning of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Judaism Hebrew History...

History

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Hebrew history, as told by the Hebrews, begins in Mesopotamia, in ***** cities of Ur in the south ***** Haran in the north. With Abraham, the story of ***** Hebrews begins, and it is clearly stated that Hebrew origins lay outside Canaan. The comm***** to leave h***** ancestral home and journey to ***** was accompanied by a promise (Gen. 12:2) The exact location of the nation-to-be is not specified but was, ***** course, known to those hearing or reading the account, Abraham journeyed to Canaan, Egypt, the Negeb, Hebron, Gezer, Beer-sheba ***** back ***** Hebron where he and his wife Sarah died.

The journey itself was m*****e than a pilgrimage, for it represented the starting point of a continuing ********** in nationhood. Nor are ***** travelers without vicissitudes, but throughout famine, earthquake, fire ***** war, god protected them.

The close relationship between the ***** and the people of the desert and steppes was acknowledged in the story ***** Ishmael, the nomadic first son of Abraham; but it is through Isaac, ***** second son about whom so very little ***** recorded, that the *****s trace their own family line. Both ***** and his *****n Jacob retained a separateness from the people among whom they dwelled, The story of *****, who became Israel, and his twin brother Esau, who became Edom, was colored with contention, deception ***** harsh misunderstanding

Joseph, the son of Jacob, ***** sold into slavery by envious brothers and rose to high office in *****. When his father and brothers migrated to Egypt to flee famine, they were regally received and encouraged to settle there.

After what appeared ***** be an extensive period, the Hebrews increased in numbers ***** a pharaoh who was unsympathetic to the Joseph traditions inherited the throne *****d persecuted the *****, pressing them in***** virtual enslavement. Moses, a refugee ***** *****ian justice, became associated with the Kenite *****. On the slopes of Mount Sinai in a dramatic encounter with God, he ***** commissioned to act as deliverer of t***** Hebrews.

Be*****ween t***** period, that is, the orig*****s in Mesopotamia and the creation of ***** new nation in Egypt, Hebrew ***** centered around Palestine. This area was the special ***** ***** ***** history, for it was this land that ***** god promised to his chosen people.

Christianity

***** Christ ruling figure of Christianity ***** born in Bethlehem, to a peasant family ***** eight BC and four AD. We know very ***** ***** Jesus' life, the first record of his life was written some forty years after his death.

For many: a rescuer, a healer, a prophet, and a te*****cher, whose ***** and teachings formed the basis ***** Christianity. Christians regard Jesus as the incarnate Son of God, and ***** having been divinely conceived by Mary the ***** of Joseph - a carpenter from Nazareth

Two of ***** Gospels, Matthew and Luke, give information about Jesus' birth and childhood (Matthew 1:1*****17, Luke 3:23-38). An angel visited Mary and *****