Chapter six sever as information on where we get our religion from. Walton in his book gives the origin or most of the information that is identified today has come from the palaces and the temples, which is called “state religion”. We are told that this does not reflect how the common Near Eastern practiced religion. Walton say that archeological came across most of this from private homes, it appears the religion was not an individual practice, but a family practice, thus called family religion. Families felt they had very little to do with state religion because they did not have access to the gods, in the same way as the kings and priest did. They felt that the gods were not concerned with them, nor did they hear their requests. They felt
