Did Judaism start from ancient egyptian religion?

Question

Did Judaism start from ancient egyptian religion?

Answer 1

jesus was copied from egypt. look at horus

Answer 2

i do not think so,, some claim a link to Atenism but it is lacking in evidence

Answer 3

No. There was only one short time when Egypt was monotheistic. That was during Akhenaten. He also let the Habiru attack the Hittites and not honor the treaty he had to protect the Hittites.

So there may have been some influence back and forth, but most likely the Habiru influencing Akhenaten.



The Egyptians ate pork had no dietary laws. The Jews had dietary laws from the start. There really isn't any similarity unless you listen to the Zeitgeist conspiracy crap.

Answer 4

You're not quite right on this :) Judaism was the first ORGANISED FAITH to be monotheistic. At that time, most religions, especially those practised in Egypt, were polytheistic. The Egyptians in particular worshipped an entire pantheon of deities. When Abraham made the eternal covenant with G-d on behalf of the Hebrews/Jews, the concept was considered quite radical. And when Moses received the commandments and explained the Torah to the millions of Israelites gathered at Mount Sinai, all of whom heard G-d speak, again it was fairly revolutionary. Judaism does not have its' roots in any of the Egyptian religions or cults. A book you might find interesting is: 'The History Of The Jews' by Paul Thompson. He's a NON Jewish author who gives an incredibly detailed account. DESIREEE - oh, so now Jews were 'avaricious' - in other words 'greedy'? My my, you will try and slip in your spiteful little digs won't you? Nice try. You'll have to be a bit more subtle if you want your real feelings to pass as just comment. EDIT TO ASKER - hey, it's a FAB question and a very interesting theory - I'd never linked the two ideas before!!!

Answer 5

Hi Aaron! There has been some speculation about Israelite and later Jewish thought arising out of Egyptian mythology but that fails for a couple of reasons. Jewish belief is based EXCLUSIVELY on the belief in one G-d, not a myriad of G-ds that the Egyptians believed in.



One of the Pharoahs, Akhenaten, believed in just one diety. There are two theories regarding this. That either he influenced Seimitic slaves in his kingdom to believe in one G-d or that perhaps prot-Israelite slaves influenced him to that belief. it is known that his kingdom was influenced heavily by a foreign, semitic people from the east. I personally buy into theory number 2.



Hope this helped!

Answer 6

First of all, NO religion has ever existed in a "vacuum". Just like people of today, individual and group beliefs are effected by contact with other religions and philosophies. Personal and cultural interpretations of religion change over time, and go through relaxed and conservative periods



Your anxiety is probably due to clinging to your religion as an unchanging "crutch" rather than believing what you want to believe and keeping that separate from history. I am not saying to bury your head in the sand and ignore the history of Christianity (like many "Fundies" do), I am just saying that if your religion works for you, then it does not matter that it has gone through changes and been influenced by other beliefs.



Early Islam was heavily influenced by (Roman Catholicism) Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism.

Early Judaism was heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism, and the polytheistic beliefs of Babylon, Sumeria, and Egypt.

Egyptian beliefs were heavily influenced by the polytheistic beliefs of the Sub-Saharan African religions, the Greeks, and the Zoroastrians.

The Romans were heavily influenced by the Greeks, Zoroastrians, (Iranian) Babylonians, (Turkish) Phrygians, and Hittites.

The Greeks were heavily influenced by the all the same as the Romans plus the Hindus, Buddhists, and even the Chinese.



And just like everybody else, early Christianity was heavily influenced by the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Judaism, Buddhism, and everyone they had been influenced by.

Answer 7

There were religions before Judaism. Abraham was a nomad. Romans did not twist Christianity they persecuted and killed Christians.

Answer 8

Judaism was a spinoff of Zorostrianism, before that there was no monotheism!



Although older (originating in the early first millennium BC), Zoroastrianism only enters recorded history in the mid-5th century BC. Herodotus' The Histories (completed c. 440 BC) includes a description of Greater Iranian society with what may be recognizably Zoroastrian features, including exposure of the dead.

Answer 9

EVERYTHING is stolen from egypt, including the story of jesus

Answer 10

There are *occasional* similarities between a few of the ancient Egyptian religions and Judaism, but more like a phrase here or there than anything truly substantial. Judaism came from Canaanite polytheism.



All of that occurred long before there was anything called 'Roman'.



What the Romans did do was borrow religious motifs from every culture they came into contact with, it was just how they approached religion. One example of this syncretism is their borrowing of the Osirian mysteries, a complex cult that had emerged around the Egyptian god Osiris which included rites in which the devotees of the deity took on his immortality by consuming his body in the form of baked wheat cakes. A Romanized form of this was created around the god Dionysus (himself a borrowing from elsewhere, perhaps Thrace) and combined with elements of Stoic philosophy from Greece. Dionysus was a god of wine as well as grain, so the Osirian sacred ale (brewed from grain) became wine.



This is where Christianity got their Eucharist from, along with their theology of salvation from eternal punishment.



Romans didn't change Judaism. But some of them borrowed poorly understood elements from Judaism (which they got rather wrong) and combined them with the salvation rites of Dionysus-Osiris to make yet another mystery religion, Christianity.

Answer 11

I've heard a vaguely similar argument before that Judaism originated in Egypt as the worship of the sun. But it isn't a convincing argument. Jews worshiped "the invisible god" at a time when anyone could have pointed up in the sky at the sun and said "there's god". There would have been no reason for Judaism to evolve away from sun worship at a time when no one knew what the sun was.



But any accusations of the Romans turning Judaism into anything is simply false. You hear accusations made that the Romans invented Christianity to suit themselves but Christianity existed for 300 years before the Romans even allowed it to be legally practiced.

Answer 12

Begin reading Genesis, and then Exodus. You'll see that Judaism came from God, not from Egypt.



The Romans didn't twist Judaism. Its practices did change some under the captivity in Babylon, but that was long before the Roman empire.



Blessings.

/Orthodox

Answer 13

Yes Moses was an Egyptian (possibly Akhenaten)



http://www.amazon.com/Moses-Akhenaten-Secret-History-Exodus/dp/1591430046/ref=pd_sim_b_1