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This is the first full-scale assessment of the theological, social and ideational implications of our new understandings of ancient Israel’s social and religious development. Scholars now stress the gradual emergence of Israel out of the culture of ancient Palestine and the surrounding ancient Near East rather than contrast Israel with the ancient world. Our new paradigms stress the ongoing and...

biological evolution in humanity’.59 Cultural evolution occurs because people have consciousness, while biological evolution works with blind instinctive drives. Cultural evolution results from human cooperation, social interaction and the exchange of ideas. An advance occurs when people combine traditional elements in a new way in art, technology or lifestyles. Change occurs when people transform their way of thinking rather than simply dying. This is ‘soft selection’, not the ‘hard selection’ of
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