geographically and instead placing the deity in the wilderness, and stressing the absolute power and jealousy of Yahweh. 2) Elijah did not advocate true monotheism, but he affirmed regional monotheism and Yahweh’s superiority over the forces of nature. 3) Amos was a universalist and the first ‘effective monotheist’, although the later classical prophets had to develop his ideas further. 4) Finally, Second Isaiah developed monotheistic belief most thoroughly and then the masses could accept it. Second