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Originally Posted by Amanah
How do you actually define Judaism?
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Judaism went from being a Biblical religion which was tabernacle/temple based to one that morphed and evolved through the centuries. The Rabbinical Judaism goes all the way back to the Babylonian captivity, the Oral Torah was codified into the Mishnah and eventually the Talmud by the 6th century A.D..
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Originally Posted by Amanah
Cultural, religious, based on parentage?
I believe you can be an atheist and claim to be Jewish based on having a Jewish parent?
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You are correct, according to halakha, an individual can be considered Jewish because their mother is Jewish. This inheritance through the mother is regardless of what the individual believes ideologically or religiously. Yet, Biblically parentage inheritance didn't come through the mother, but through the father. The Bible precedence is superseded by the Talmud Kiddushin 68b, and has remained altered to this day.