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Judaism-related controversies

  • TalmudThe Talmud emerged from oral traditions that circulated for centuries before being written down between the third and sixth centuries.
  • Spanish InquisitionIn 1478, Pope Sixtus IV issued a papal bull authorizing the creation of the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition.
  • CrusadesOn the 27th of November 1095, Pope Urban II stood before a crowd at the Council of Clermont in France and declared a military campaign against Turkomans.
  • Jews as the chosen peopleThe Hebrew Bible opens with a series of binding agreements between God and Abraham, the patriarch who left his homeland to follow a divine command.
  • SanhedrinMoses stood before the Israelites in the wilderness and declared that leading the people was too difficult for him alone.