The origin of Yahweh religion is indissolubly connected with the process of the political liberation of the Exodus group. It is the spark which helps to ignite a long-drawn-out, tumultuous social conflict. The book of Exodus reports in different ways how this assimilated group of foreign forced labourers, with no solidarity, incapable of political action and oppressed, by the initative of the god Yahweh secured a political leader and a new
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