> Another time / place to go would be when the first books of the Old Testament were written. There's a theory doing the rounds that the first book written was

> Another time / place to go would be when the first books of the Old Testament were written. There's a theory doing the rounds that the first book written was Leviticus, which acted as a kind of early legal code. Then the theology was added later as a means of justifying the law and marrying it to a religion rather than just a city state. There are also arguments that early Judaism was polytheistic and Yehova was a god of a city rather than "the god" in the original conception. They were all rewrites of Akkadian and Egyptian texts. Overlaid with Ugaritic basic beliefs. Origin stories in Judaism is mostly syncretic and fragmented stories of Akkadian/egyptian myth. Mostly rewritten altho the Ugaritic Baal cycle mythos gets reproduced somewhat intact brought in by the Cannanites from whom the Hebrews came.