[BipolarBob]

The Catholic Church is the longest-enduring institution in the world.

It looks like the Jews get slighted again.

[presently no screen name]

It looks like the Jews get slighted again

It looks like Jesus gets slighted, also. Jesus and His Body of born again BELIEVERS is NOT an institution nor a 'religion' with man made teachings which are worldly and secular which are not of God.

His church is all about HIS WORD ALONE and fellowship with The Father. Christians are well aware, Jesus and His disciples were Jewish and Paul being their most ardent defender. Then he encountered Jesus and became born again, not of the flesh but of the Spirit. It wasn't about 'law' anymore but ALL ABOUT JESUS - grace and faith - and then he was the most ardent teacher of the Kingdom of God. Then God chose him to write 2/3 of the NT inspired by His Spirit that lived within him. Christians know their roots and the OT tells of great men of faith.

The counterfeits will be destroyed as everything NOT of GOD will be. This is the time to deceive man so that is why they exist.

[ronnietherocket3]

Judaism as a religion has been around longer, but it is difficult to point to an institution inside of the religion that has been around longer than the Catholic Church. The Jewish Rabbinate is more of a conception of an institution, not an institution. That said it appears the Japanese Monarchy can be traced to 600 BC.

[vladimir998]

Jews are a people. They are not an institution. They were not slighted in the least.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I suppose a historian might say that "Temple Judaism" and its formal institutions (the Leviticus priesthood and so forth) ended in 70 A.D. and "Rabbinical Judaism" might be thought to have started at the same time, making Rabbinical Judaism just about as old, as an institution, as Catholicism.

I read somewhere that there are, or were other institutions arguably more ancient. One was the Ethiopian monarchy (ca 975 BC - 1975 AD?) --- but that's gone now, and so "out of the running" so to speak. Another would be Buddhist monasticism, depending on whether or not you see it as unified and continuous enough to be called an institution.

[Cronos]

technically the Jews aren't an institution, but an ethno-cultural-religious group akin to the Armenians and the Parsis in maintaining their sense of identity by means of retaining a distinct language, religion and by selectively marrying only within the community.

The present-day form of Rabbinical Judaism dates from the 3rd to 5th centuries with the compilation of the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli) with the Sura Academy and the Pumbeditha -- both close to modern day Baghdad and Fallujah

This is the mainstream as opposed to Karaite Judaism or Samaritanism