WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Tell me about the book of Daniel. explains that the Jews also believed that evil and suffering would eventually be replaced by goodness. It tels that Daniel was a trusted adviser to a Babylonian king. It tells of the story about Daniel and the lion’s den where God protected him from the wild beast.

Detailed explanation-2: -Judaism today is descended from Rabbinic Judaism, that is, the Judaism that emerged after the destruction of the second temple by the Romans in 70 ce. This form of Judaism was centered around the Torah and the synagogue, instead of the temple.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Prothero, the problem Judaism is addressing is exile (distance from where we ought to be).

Detailed explanation-4: -While in exile, the Judahites became known as “Jews” (, or Yehudim), “Mordecai the Jew” from the Book of Esther being the first biblical mention of the term. The first exile was the Assyrian exile, the expulsion from the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) begun by Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria in 733 BCE.