Quote Originally Posted by Magoroth View Post
Judaism evolved, by some accounts, rather forcefully, from Canaanite polytheism, which makes a lot of sense if you look at the Old Testament as if you were reading Greek myths. God resembles a Pagan God through and through. The Kingdoms of Israel (Judea and Israel itself) venerated Yahweh (or Ba'al Hamon, if I'm not mistaken) as their national god, but they didn't hold him to be the only god. They attempted to reinforce belief in that god by completely rewriting their traditional religion and turning it from a form of polytheism into a form of henotheism-monotheism. Now, the idea that they actively rewrote their own religion sounds a bit fanciful, but it's generally agreed that Judaism (and, therefore, Christianity) evolved from Semitic polytheism.
This would be it @Gyrlander