Israel’s religion it is likely that it began with Moses. Essentially, therefore, scholars follow the lead given by the Pentateuch itself, where the foundations of Israel’s faith—God’s self-revelation as YHWH, the Exodus, the passover, Sinai and the giving of Torah, Israel’s sacrificial worship—are all ascribed to God’s dealings with Moses. Of course, scholars vary considerably in their assessments of the likely antiquity of all these elements, and so vary correspondingly in the extent of divergence