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Tradition collection 1,562 records

Judaism

Texts, sages, institutions and places, and the schools that read them differently.

  • Extent Levant, Mesopotamia, Europe, North Africa and the diaspora, roughly 1000 BCE to the present.
  • Holds 766 places · 528 figures · 144 texts and stories · 75 traditions
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Before you count

Rabbinic transmission is long and well documented in the sources and poorly recorded in structured data.

What else it is missing

Places · 766

Holy places and sites

Temples, tombs, holy cities and sites recorded in this collection, the most widely linked first. A place is not a count of believers.

All 766 places

766 places 765 with a point on the map 621 with a date 1 archaeological site

See them on the atlas

The oldest on record

The earliest recorded starts among its best-known places, by 1000 CE, in date order. Each date is the place’s own — a city’s founding, a building’s — not the start of this tradition there.

  1. 996 BCE Solomon's Temple
  2. 516 BCE Second Temple
  3. 2nd century BCE Capernaum Archaeological site
  4. 2nd century BCE Delos Synagogue
  5. 19 BCE Western Wall
  6. c. 150 CE Dura-Europos synagogue
  7. 4th century CE Hurvat Anim
  8. 6th century CE Gaza synagogue

Where they gather

Cities and sites with two or more of its places recorded in them — counted from each place’s own location.

Figures · 528

Who to meet first

The figures its own texts, stories and traditions name — the most widely linked first, this collection’s own before those it shares.

All 528 figures

More of its best-linked figures

Texts and stories · 144

Stories and texts

What was told, and what was written — dated when it was written.

All 3 stories All 143 texts

Traditions · 75

Many paths, shared histories

The traditions, schools and movements this collection holds — each with its own page.

All 75 traditions

Festivals and practices · 34

Festivals, holy days and practices

Holy days with the day their record gives, then rites and practices. A festival recurs, so it has no date on the historical clock.

All 34 practices

Holy days and festivals · 17, each with the day its record gives

9 more with a recorded day — the full list.

Rites and practices · 13, with no day on record

7 more — the full list.

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds 34.

Institutions, offices and houses · 120

Institutions, offices and houses

Recorded in this collection, the most widely linked first. An office is a line of holders, not a family. A ruling house’s affiliation is the family’s, not its subjects’ practice.

All 107 institutions All 11 offices

Gods · 8

The gods

The most widely linked across Wikipedia, this collection’s own first. A picture of a god is a work of art, never a likeness.

All 8 gods

More of its best-linked gods

What this collection holds

Counted, not scored. Each count opens its list.

Every collection

A record can be more than one kind — a monastery is a place and an institution — so these counts add up to more than its 1,562 records. The sections above count the same way, and draw each record once, under the kind its own page is filed under.

Statements
6,759
With references
1,357
Undated
550
Accounts
0
Reviewed here
0
What it is missing, and how it was assembled

What this collection is missing

Written by an editor, not computed. A count of records cannot say any of this, and a collection read without it is a collection read wrongly.

  • Rabbinic transmission is long and well documented in the sources and poorly recorded in structured data.
  • Biblical figures carry narrative time and no historical date; where a date appears it is a source's.
  • Movement affiliation after 1800 is recorded unevenly.

Counted across the collections

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds 34.

What the counts mean

Statements
Relationships and facts recorded on these records.
With references
Statements that cite a source outside Wikimedia.
Undated
Records with no date on any of the three clocks.
Accounts
Named versions of a story, kept apart.
Reviewed here
Read by a person and signed with a date.

How it was assembled

Discovered from Wikidata by class and by religion, ranked by incoming links, then filtered against each item’s own claims. Relationships are imported statements unless a row says otherwise; none of them has been read here.

“Reviewed” means a person read it and signed it with a date — which is why it is zero. Nothing here measures how good the material is.

Records here have an article in 16 languages between them. The interface is English only for now. Published 2026-09-25.

How 271 of these records were placed here through another record

Most records are in Judaism by their own statements. These are here because of another record they are linked to — worked out when the data was built, not stated on the record itself. Each one’s own page says the same.

Cities and sites, through the places recorded in them · 3

  • Jerusalem — 22 of the 44 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Hebron — 2 of the 3 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Safed — 2 of the 2 places recorded in it here are in this collection

Tombs, through the figures buried in them · 3

  • Rachel's Tomb — it is the burial place of Rachel
  • Nabi Shu'ayb — it is the burial place of Elisha ben Abuyah
  • Ohel — it is the burial place of Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Figures and stories, through the text they appear in · 213

  • Adam — it appears in Torah
  • Eve — it appears in Book of Genesis
  • Noah — it appears in Nevi'im
  • Isaac — it appears in Book of Genesis
  • Queen of Sheba — it appears in Nevi'im
  • Gilgamesh — it appears in Book of Giants

and 207 more

Parts, through the whole they belong to · 51

and 45 more

Works, through their main subject · 1

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Keep going

Walk Judaism another way.

A family tree as the accounts give it, every mapped place on the atlas, and the dates on the timeline — each on its own clock.

Moses’s family tree On the atlas The timeline, from Judaism