Modern Scholarship
In the late 20th and early 21st century there have been significant new discoveries, both iconographic and epigraphic, that have inspired a resurgence in interest in the Israelite religion and the roots of monotheism in the Bible. No consensus has been reached by academics on the origins of monotheism in ancient Israel, but Yahweh "clearly came out of the world of the gods of the Ancient Near East."
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