Example sentences for: judaism

How can you use “judaism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When Seleucid rulers outlawed Judaism, Jews led by Judah Maccabee and his brothers staged a revolution in 167 b.c. and, against all odds, restored the primacy of Jewish religious life in Jerusalem.

  • The existence of such a story is not necessarily evidence of general antipathy toward Jews; it is a likely reflection of the long struggle between Hellenism and the only Mediterranean culture of consequence that held out against it, Judaism.

  • "Talmudic" originally signified nothing more than "of or pertaining to the Talmud" ( Oxford English Dictionary ), the Talmud being the postbiblical Rabbinic code of Jewish laws and interpretations that is the source of authority in Orthodox Judaism.

  • Having rebelled in their youth against Judaism's commandments, having come to revile its restrictions--having, in some sense, wished it dead--they were forced to watch the Nazis fulfill their fantasy by actually murdering the thing whose destruction they inwardly willed.

  • With his provocative speeches, Farrakhan receives more attention than Wallace Deen--most notably his reference to Judaism as "a gutter religion" and his declaration that Hitler was "a great man."


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