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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Late Latin
Origin: Judaismus, from Greek Ioudaismos, from Ioudaios; JEW

Judaism

 noun
     
Related topics: Judaism
Ju‧da‧is‧m [uncountable]
the Jewish religion based on the sacred books known as the Hebrew Scriptures. These writings contain many of the books that are also in the Old Testament of the Christian bible.
—Judaic adjective
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