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Source: http://www.jcpa.org/cjc/cjc-heilman-s05.htm
Jews and Fundamentalism
(Jewish Political Studies Review) Samuel C. Heilman - The Jewish people has throughout the millennia of its existence managed to retain some key elements of its identity while also adapting to the societies and cultures in which it found itself. That ability to rebuild and recreate itself was what allowed a people that began as a Temple cult and became a people of books to survive exile and dispersion. It was nothing less than the capacity to be different in different times and places, even as it remained attached to a covenant and a history, that enabled the Jews to endure.