ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on to a general and broad overview of Judaism and Christianity. According to biblical tradition, the original home base of the Hebrews was around a city called Harran. The Hebrews, in the beginning, spoke Aramaic, a Semitic language. W. K. Lowther Clarke says, “no more striking example is to be found in history of the power of a determined minority to influence the course of events than the fact that Judaism, as we now call Hebrew polity, was conceived in Babylonia and imposed on Judea.” It was during 140 B.C. that Christianity arose as a fifth sect among the Jews. Within a generation it had partly split off from Judaism. The question of the origin of Christianity is a matter of intense controversy. The community left by Jesus must not be conceived as anything like the later Christian church. The larger part of the Jesus sect underwent a massive transformation in its rapid evolution into Catholic Christianity.
