All 3 Uses of
Judaism
in
Middlemarch
- They are as rich as Jews, those Waules and Featherstones; I mean, for people like them, who don't want to spend anything.†
Chpt 1 *Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
- He described touches of incident among the poor people in Rome, only to be seen by one who could move about freely; he found himself in agreement with Mr. Casaubon as to the unsound opinions of Middleton concerning the relations of Judaism and Catholicism; and passed easily to a half-enthusiastic half-playful picture of the enjoyment he got out of the very miscellaneousness of Rome, which made the mind flexible with constant comparison, and saved you from seeing the world's ages as a set of box-like partitions without vital connection.†
Chpt 2Judaism = the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- whose believers are known as Jews
- Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus—Jewish antiquities—oh dear!†
Chpt 5Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture
Definition:
the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud
The Christian Old Testament closely corresponds to the Hebrew (Jewish) Bible.