also initiated severe reforms in the church, eliminating abuses by strong measures and executing the leaders of heretical sects. In addition, Zara Yaqob conducted an unsuccessful military campaign against theBeta Israel, a group of Agau-speaking Jews who practiced a non-Talmudic form of Judaism....
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Obviously, one form or another of ritual bathing is a shared legacy of all three Abrahamic religions. In Judaism, ritual bathing, or ablution, in the form of tevilah (full-body immersion) in fresh water, may date from Mosaic times, and has certainly been practiced since the period during...
He aimed, moreover, to unify his vast and heterogeneous empire behind the worship of Zeus and, therefore, severely restricted the practice of Judaism, whose strict monotheism impeded the realization of that policy. In Antiochus’s day the Syrians were devotees of the culture of Greece. ...