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    1. 725-9098 By the early seventh century Judaism was in crisis. In the Mediterranean basin it was battered by legal, social, and religious pressure, weak in numbers and culturally almost non-existent. It was also largely cut off from the Jewry of the Persian empire, in Babylon, present-day Iraq.
    2. The JC Essay May 24, 2012 15:56 Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is historical truth.
 
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