Abrahamic religion

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The Abrahamic religions are monotheistic religions originating from the traditions of Iron Age proto-Judaism; the major ones are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, though there are others that are either offshoots of the main three (such as Baha'iism and Unitarianism) or early branches that are not directly related to the modern forms of any of the main three (such as the faith of the Samaritans). All of them share in common the worship of a single God, variously named El (ancient Semitic name), YHWH/Yahweh (Jewish tradition, sometimes used in Christianity), Jehovah (taboo deformation derived from early Christianity and rabbinical Judaism), Allah (Muslim, from the Arabic form of El), and numerous others. The term "Abrahamic" derives from the status of the Biblical patriarch Abraham as the purported founder of all such related faiths. In modern times, Christianity and Islam are two of the largest and the two most widespread of the five major faiths of the world (the others being Hinduism, Buddhism and "Chinese Traditional").[1]

The most fundamental document in the Abrahamic faiths is the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. Judaism adds the Tanakh (Old Testament); Christianity adds the New Testament (and, depending on the branch, some of the Apocrypha); Islam replaces the entire thing with the Qur'an, which is based on the Christian Bible. Of course if you are a follower of Islam then the Christian Bible is based on the Qur'an.

The fundamental prophets of these three branches are, in chronological order, Moses, Jesus Christ, and Mohammed

Taxonomy of the Abrahamic faiths

The following list is intended to be cladistic in nature, showing the relationship between religious denominations in terms of which tradition spawned which. Significant breaks (i.e. the point where a modified belief is said to be a new religion) are marked with boldface entries.By necessity, this list is highly simplified; see Talk:Abrahamic religion for further details.

  • Early Judaism (may have been polytheistic, with YHWH and Asherah as heads of the pantheon; identified from disappearance of pig bones in some Canaanite trash heaps)
  • First and Second Temple Judaism
    • Samaritan faith
    • Essene faith (Jewish monasticism)
    • Rabbinical Judaism (derived from the Pharisee tradition and developed through writing and study of the Talmud)
      • Orthodox Judaism
        • Haredi Judaism
        • Hasidic Judaism
      • Conservative Judaism
      • Reform Judaism
    • Early Christianity
      • Pauline Christianity
        • Eastern Orthodox
        • Oriental Othodox
          • Coptic Christianity
          • Syriac Christianity
        • Roman Catholicism
          • Anglicanism (includes Episcopal Church in America)
            • Methodism
            • Baptist churches (widely splintered, covering fairly liberal churches to extremely conservative churches)
              • Adventism
          • Lutheranism
          • Calvinism
            • Presbyterianism
          • Unitarianism
          • Mormonism (status as a Christian faith is disputed due to the vast theological differences)
          • Pentecostalism
      • Gnosticism
        • Mandaeanism
    • Islam
      • Sunni Islam
        • Wahabbism (predominant variety of Sunni Islam in Saudi Arabia)
      • Shi'a Islam
        • Baha'iism
      • Sufism
      • Kharijite
        • Ibadi (The connection of modern Ibadi with the Kharijite branch is disputed)

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