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Israel’s religious stories, cult, temple, priesthood, laws, and kingship have extensive detailed parallels with non-Israelite religions in Canaan, Egypt, and elsewhere in the ancient Near East

Israel’s religious stories, cult, temple, priesthood, laws, and kingship have extensive detailed parallels with non-Israelite religions in Canaan, Egypt, and elsewhere in the ancient Near East. How much influence did these early religious traditions have on the formation of Judaism…