Historical and Geographical Connections Among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Course
Institution
Introduction
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are the most popular faith-based religious communities among an array of Abrahamic religions. They are known as Abrahamic because they all hold a central belief that Abraham was their first believer and father. Long before the first man ever believed that a single being reigned supreme over all others, people believed in a collection of gods that allegedly created life and sustained their livelihoods. The advent of Monotheism, brought about by a nomadic Hebrew group, ultimately gave rise to these three religious groups with the biggest adherents in the world.
Although there are very many differences that resulted from the evolution of these communities, many grounded similarities can also be traced. This paper seeks to explore the historical and geographical connections between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and therefore, critically analyze the differences and correspondences they exhibit.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
It is well noted in history books that the most revered prophet of all time, Abraham, inhabited the Palestinian shores of the Mediterranean Sea. All three groups believe in all this to be true up to this particular point. It is believed that God, the supreme maker of life, then reached out to this religious patriarch. This accentuated the beginning of the monotheistic belief that there was one God who was, is and will be greater than all gods. This was the start of Judaism, the belief that God had chosen the Jews as his people. They are dated from around 1200 B.C and have the laws in the five books of the Torah playing the principal role in their worship (Finkelstein, L. (1960).
Christian saints are also dated back to the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. This further strengthens the claim that a lot of Christian tenets are borrowed from the basic structure of Judaism as laid out by Father Abraham. Although they started as a developed monotheistic form of Judaism, they became more recognized and free after Emperor Constantine accepted the religion and made it the official Roman state religion (Dowley, 1990). 
Islam, on the other hand, believes that Judaism and the subsequent Christianity were all earlier accounts of Islamic tradition, although time has made it more prone to alterations and human fabrications. They View their religion as the final and more strict version of what is Allah’s word to the human race. Like Christianity, they recognize earlier prophets like Abraham, Moses and Jesus Christ. (Bell, 2012). They believe that the Quran is the word of God, which categorically recognizes the Jews and Christians as people of the book. This mention is of great significance as far as recognizing the legitimacy of the connection of the three groups is concerned (Nasr, & Religionsphilosoph, 2003). 
The above chronology symbolizes firstly, the geographical connection between the three groups. It further explains their order of evolution and the fact that each group recognizes the existence of the other. This then compels us to appreciate that the groups hold more nexuses than initially thought. From the nature of God, the nature of Jesus, the Holy Books to salv...