The Four Stages Of The Early Hebrew Culture

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The early Hebrew culture had many developments throughout their culture. Many things lead to what/how the Hebrew culture was going to be like. There were four stages of how the Hebrew religion came to be what it was. The first stage was that Hebrews were polytheists, which means that they believed in many gods. The second stage was the national monolatry, which was begun by Moses that lasted from 1250 B.C.E. to 750 B.C.E.. This meant that people believed in only one god, but did not deny their belief in the other gods. The third stage is the prophetic revolution, which were the teachings of the prophets. The prophets had three main doctrines that made up what they were supposed to teach and they were: the ruler of the world was Yahweh and he …show more content…
It was written between the time of 500-300 B.C.E.. The main thing that the book was about was the hardship between a man and fate. The book is a writing of the Hebrew Bible and the first book in the Christian Old Testament. The Minoan civilization first started on the island of Crete. Knossos was in the center of the Minoan civilization. Sir Arthur Evans discovered stonework, paintings, and the first flush-toilet. The Mycenaean civilization first started on the large land of Greece. The Greek site Mycenae, was where Schliemann dug up gold in 1876. Mycenae was known to be “rich in gold”. Sometimes the Mycenaeans are known as the first Greeks, because they were the first to ever speak the Greek language. Later on, the Mycenaeans made their way over to Crete, destroying Knossos so that they could end the Minoan civilization once and for all. There are four main reasons why the two civilizations are somewhat important and they are: in Europe, they were the earliest civilizations, future European accomplishments and values were to be developed, there were continuous outlooks, and celebrations were being celebrated without having walls around the

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