The term Judaism derives from the Latin Iudaismus , derived from the Greek Ιουδαϊσμός Ioudaïsmos , and ultimately from the Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah , " Judah "; [ 62 ] [ 63 ] in Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת, Yahadut . It first appears as the Hellenistic Greek iudaismos in 2nd Maccabees in the