The religion of the Hebrew provides us with monotheism; it offers us the concept of the rule of law this is according to Genesis 17:18 (1900 BC). It provided us with the thought of the divine works for human history of the events of people. It establishes the concept of agreement which describes that God has a unique relationship with the community of man. In the Middle East, in the West, and in Asia and Africa the Hebrew legacy permeates everything that is observable since it highly influences the human culture. The development and history of the Hebrew monotheism were rocky and long. The significant shifts in the religion facilitated revolutions inside the faith. Little can be known about the Hebrew nature of worship before they migrated from Egypt. Before then, Abraham is seen worshipping one true God.
The book of Genesis gives an explaination of only one God who created the universe, and this God is said to have human qualities. The portraits of the religion of the Hebrew Religion conclude that the monotheism started with the cults of Yahweh by the book of Exodus according to the Egypt-Canaan migration in 1200BC. The Genesis texts try to legitimize the Palestine occupation through the assertion of the covenant relationship that existed between the Hebrews and Yahweh, which had been established. According to the narration of the Hebrew History in the book of Exodus, the Hebrews came to be a nation and adopted national God when they settled on the slopes of the mountain according to Exodus 19:20 (1200BC). The Egyptian flight shows that the Hebrew was the chosen nation of Yahweh. This is the time in history whereby the scattered people came to Abraham and came to exist as a single unit. This crucial point makes the Hebrews adopt Yahweh as their only national God.
The religion was earlier a one which was monstrous as the Hebrews never worshipped any deity but Yahweh. The religion in the Mosaic era denied and never allowed the existence of other gods. The migration account has many references to the historical characters representing other gods. The first Decalogue law stated that no god should be before Yahweh meaning that no other deity should exist. A few centuries later, Yahweh was a God, who was anthropomorphic since he had physical characteristics and possessed human qualities. Yahweh, according to the Torah was often capricious and frequently angry.
Whatever the mosaic character of the occupation of the monarchy, the prophets of Yahweh made him one and the only in the universe. In the early times, the Hebrews acknowledged and worshipped other gods. The prophet always asserted that only one true Yahweh ruled the world. According to Isaiah 45, monotheism takes root in the prophetic revolution and greatly worshipped alone whereby sacrifices are offered to him (600 BC). Through the development of the monotheistic religion, the monotheistic nature cannot be dated earlier to the revolution of the prophets.
The sporadic conflict which wearied up in two centuries, the civil war which was ruinous threatened the disparate settlers in the Jewish community in Palestine and started to desire for a state which was unified in a single monarch. The Mosaic religion was highly concerned with the cultic rules which were adhered to by the Israelites and the prophets of Yahweh re-centered religion to be concerned with ethics. The highly profound cognitive and spiritual crisis in the Hebrew was the exile. Their religion profoundly shifted during the years of the exile. A group of religious reformers believed that the problems suffered by Jews were due to corrupt ethics and religion. The reformers greatly reoriented the Jewish religion in the Mosaic books, and they thought that the Hebrews should go back to their foundational faith.
The Hebrews greatly struggled with the faith which was new, frequently lapsing into other religions. The Hebrews often turned back towards the religion which they first participated due to the ethical crisis. Their striking innovation in the God who was new and anthropomorphic was seen as operation above the human nature and above the world of people. This mosaic God is taken to be the Hebrew ruler. The Torah laws were written later in the seventh century. This is reasonable and we can, however, conclude that the religion of the early Mosaic was a religion which was based on laws and imagine that Yahweh is the enforcer and author of the Torah laws. The Hebrews seemed to have taken Yahweh as a monarch. Later after-life never existed in injunction in the Hebrew religion and no images were made for worship. All religions and human concerns seemed to be oriented all over the world. The accounts of the Hebrews in history, the settlement of the children of Israel in Palestine around the 1050BC made them believe that Yahweh was the King, and his laws were their laws.
Cited sources
The Holy Bible, Genesis 17,18 (1900 BC)
The Holy Bible, Exodus 19:20 (1200BC).
The Holy Bible. Isaiah 45, 600 BC
