Jared Lanigan

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Desacralization of nature, devalorization of cult activity, in short, the violent and total rejection of cosmic religiosity, and, above all, the decisive importance attributed to spiritual regeneration of the individual by a definitive return to Yahweh were the response of the prophets to the historical crises that threatened the very existence of the two Jewish kingdoms.
A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
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