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On March 12, 2014, the Elie Wiese University Institute of Jewish Studies and its Director of Studies, Franklin Rausky, had the privilege of welcoming Professor Henri Atlan to give a lecture on the theme "The Invention of the Jewish Religion" in front of some 200 participants. We are pleased to allow you to see this fascinating lecture in which Professor Atlan highlights the long historical process that led the Jewish people, originally defined by a tradition, a memory and a legislation, to become in the Middle Ages a religion in the strict sense of the term, with doctrinal principles different from those of Christianity and Islam. The notions of belief and faith did not have the same meaning in biblical times, in the Talmudic era and in the period that followed until the present day. The professions of faith that characterize the Jewish religion, more recent than those of Christianity and Islam, date from the Middle Ages. The evolution of the status of Maimonides' articles of faith and their relationship with scientific and philosophical knowledge shows how a part of Judaism established itself as a religion. From this we should conclude that the notion of "religion" of Israel is not so ancient. In the world of Hebrew antiquity and particularly in biblical writing, the term "religion" does not exist. Israel is a global civilization and not a sect with theological dogmas established by a single authority. In the medieval era, faced with the two other monotheistic religions, Christianity and Islam, Jewish philosophers attempted to define the corpus of the faith of Israel marked by the singularity of the Hebrew message in relation to the two great conquering civilizations of the time. Find the teachings of the Elie Wiesel Institute on http://www.instituteliewiesel.com