Why should Judaism be considered a major world religion?

Answer 1

Because the major religions, Christianity and Islam, are offshoots or derivatives of Judaism.
Pope John Paul II called the Jew an older brother.
Mohammed was raised by Jews and culled a lot from them.
While Judaism is not numerically a major religion it is a major influence on the worlds religions. Answer
Mohammed was not raised by Jews, he was raised by his tribe which were pagan arabs. But, in the Quran, Allah is the god of all 3 major religions. Judaism, then Cristianity, then Islam.

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Judaism is a major world religion not because of the numbers of its adherents but because of its influence, not only on other religions but also on Western society in general.

Answer 2

Judaism is not the smallest of all the religions in the world, but it is the smallest of the Abrahamic religions (Islam's population is 1.6 billion, Christianity's population is 2.2 billion, but Judaism's population is only 14.2 million people.)

Answer 3

Quote:
"I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation ... fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations" (John Adams, 2nd President of the United States).
"Certainly, the world without the Jews would have been a radically different place. Humanity might have eventually stumbled upon all the Jewish insights, but we cannot be sure. All the great conceptual discoveries of the human intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they had been revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them for the first time. The Jews had this gift. To them we owe the idea of equality before the law, both Divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of human person; of the individual conscience and of collective conscience, and social responsibility" (Paul Johnson, Christian historian, author of A History of the Jews and A History of Christianity).See also the Related Links.

Judaism's influence on society

Judaism's influence on Islam

Answer 4

In terms of numbers, not so much. But in terms of being the first monotheistic religion, and its eventual influence, yes.

Answer 5

NO. Judaism is an ethnic or tribal religion, meaning that it does not actively proselytize among Non-Jews and attempt to convert the world.

Answer 6

yes it is a world wide religion