• The Children of Israel built a nation and a religion on the
rejection of things of the rest of Near Eastern religious .
• Monotheism, the belief in one God, became the central
force in the life of the Hebrews.
• The Hebrew idea of God and his personal relationship
to human beings is one of the foundations of the
Western tradition.
• Not only did they see God as one, but they ascribed to
him consistency of concern for man and consistency of
justice to man.