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The three major abrahamic religions are Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Judaism and Islam both claim to be as old as creation. Of course, at most only one of these claims could be true, and that would be the oldest religion in the world.

More practically, Judaism is by far the oldest of the three religions. Many Jews believe that Judaism was founded by Abraham over 4,000 years ago. Even biblical scholars say that Judaism, as we know it today, had its origins in the middle of the first millennium BCE - long before the start of Christianity and Islam.

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Judaism is the oldest of the three major religions in the Middle East (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam*) by a minimum of 550 years to a maximum of 1800 years depending on scholarly or religious estimates.

*Islam here refers to the religion based on Qur'anic Revelation.

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