Introduction to Judaism I. History of Judaism
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Source 1a: The ten commandments (picture)
Source 1b: The Ten Commandments (text)
Source  2: The Tel Dan inscription (picture)
Source  3: Assyrian relief. Jewish prisoners sent into exile toward Babylon (picture)

Source 1: Triumphal procession, detail of the Arch of Titus, 81 AD, Rome (picture)
Source 2: Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book LXVIII (text)
Source 3: Tympanum of the Dura-Europos synagogue (2nd-3rd centuries) (picture)
Source 4: The Jewish diaspora in the 1st – 2nd centuries (map)

Source 1a: Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed (text)
Source 1b: Manuscript from The Guide for the Perplexed (picture)
Source 2a: French postal stamp showing the figure of Rachi of Troyes (picture)
Source 2b: Exterior view of the Old-New synagogue, Prague (picture)
Source 3a: Santa Maria la Blanca synagogue, Toledo, commemorative plaque                    (picture)
Source 3b: Santa Maria la Blanca synagogue, Toledo, interior view (picture)

Source 1a: Letter by Baal Shem Tov (text)
Source 1b: Baruch Agadati as Hassid, from the Dance Melaveh Malka                   (picture)
Source  2: Portrait of Moses Mendelssohn (picture)
Source 3a: Letter by Berr Isaac Berr (text)
Source 3b: Louis-François Couché, Napoleon the Great re-establishing the                   religion of the Israelites (30 may 1806) (picture)

Source 1a: Book cover of Der Judenstaat by Theodore Herzl (picture)
Source 1b: Declaration of independence of Israel (text)
Source 2a: Protocol of the Wannsee Conference (text)
Source 2b: Felix Nussbaum, The Damned (1943) (picture)
Source  3: The distribution of the world’s Jewish population (2010) (map)