What religion were the Jews practising before Abraham?

Question

Was in monotheistic? Did they perform sacrifices?

Answer 1

Technically they were called the Hebrews back then (and a few other groups were mixed in too). They worshipped all sorts of gods: Baal, El, etc. In fact, God was called El Shaddai (El of the Mountain) in part of the Bible. Moses kept asking God to reiterate that he was a totally different god than they had been worshipping up to that point. He even asked why Abraham hadn't called him Yahweh and he said he had chosen not to reveal his sacred name to him. As for sacrifices, they did that before during and after the fact.

Answer 2

There weren't any Jews IN the time of Abraham. The term "Jew" means "of the tribe of Judah". Judah was a son of Jacob/Israel, who as a grandson of Abraham. Abraham himself came from Ur, a city in "Chaldea" or Mesopotamia. Abraham's ancestors were likely practicing the religion of the ancient Babylonians (not the Babylonians of the Exile). They were likely polytheistic and may have performed sacrifices to their gods, as that was a common form of worship. (Evidence from the books of Kings suggests that monotheism was a difficult sell even in the time of the Israelite kingdoms.)

Answer 3

There were no Jews before Abraham. God called Abraham (at that time being called Abram) out from the midst of a pagan culture to follow Him, the only true God. (see Genesis chapter 12)

Answer 4

The ancient Middle Eastern pantheon has a variety of deities and yes they did perform sacrifices. Even in the bible you find different Gods mentioned. El is not the same as Yah. The name Yahweh itself may be from the Sanskrit "YHVH", meaning "Ever-Flowing" and thus relates him to volcanic activity. After a short time, Yahweh became the National Deity of Isra-El, and was equated with El of Canaan. . Also, the Hebrews seemed to have associated Yah with Baal, making the two gods (just as with El and Yah) nearly identical.

Answer 5

I assume that you mean the Hebrew people. Well, for one they were monotheistic from the textual and archeological evidence.

They also did perform various sacrifices due to the cultural and societal influence though what type of sacrifices or to what extent did they have sacrificial worship is really unknown to modern man.

Answer 6

There were no Jews before Abraham.
The Jews, were defined as a Nation after leaving Egypt, they are the descendants of Abraham.

Answer 7

Sorry, but there were no Jews before the time of Abraham.

Answer 8

There were no Jews before Abraham.

Answer 9

i think of the main reason (and that's not my own opinion) is as a results of the fact lots of their religious propaganda from extremists campaigns against western lifestyle and states how our way of existence is purely "incorrect". yet they nevertheless proceed to to migrate of their 1000's to the western countries they declare to hate lots and enable off bombs, like interior the London 7/7 bombings, that have been pinned on Muslim extremists. anybody knows this is barely a small minority of Muslims that are in charge for this yet they nevertheless tar all Muslims with the comparable brush, unfair nonetheless this is. i does not situation too lots approximately there being yet another holocaust, because of the fact the international is wiser now and anybody knows you won't have the ability to punish an entire creed for the paintings of a minority. Muslims hate Jews in all probability for the comparable motives that Christians used to: because of the fact in circumstances of poverty the Jews constantly appeared to be wealthy, which brought about prejudice based on the incomprehensibility of the area. this is that reason that Hitler based his hatred of Jews on, and that brought about the holocaust interior the 1st place. He performed on human beings's fears and gave them a scapegoat for their suffering, which i think is what governments are doing now with Muslims. it rather is uncomplicated accountable them as a race because of the fact of their ideals, even nonetheless the universal public of Muslims are tolerant of different's ideals and cultures. there have been religious wars all the way via background, from the Roman Conquests as much as the war on Terror, and together as they contain diverse faiths, I doubt they're going to provide up any time quickly.

Answer 10

FALSE RELIGION

Josh.24:1-4; The fathers served other gods.

Abraham was called a Hebrew [ as to language for one thing ], and his relatives that went down into Egypt were called Hebrews.