monotheism

According to the predominant modern theory, OTL the early Jewish people were predominantly monolatrous in Iron Age I and did not become monotheistic until the Babylonian captivity. Monolatrism is the belief or recognition of many gods but the insistence on worshipping only one of them...

One of the most controversial and interesting figures of Egypt is Akhenaten. During Akhenaten's reign, which occurred roughly 1353 BC and 1334 BC (scholars are not completely clear on the date), he, alongside his wife Nefertiti, brought his fist down on the polytheism of Egypt to establish the...

So, I find myself thinking about these threads flipping the destinies of the polytheistic Romans and monotheistic Jews: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-large-jewish-empire-oppressing-a-tiny-rome-by-ad-0.358905/...

Judaism's path to monotheism was an interesting one, with Yahweh over time becoming more and more prominent at the expense of other gods. It was an anomaly in the ancient world, where polytheism was the norm. My question is what would have happened had Rome gone on a similar path. If a single...

The Dacians had one of the most advanced religions compared to their polytheistic neighbors, including the Romans. The Dacians primarily worshipped the Thracian quasi-god Zalmoxis with a mix of Celtic and Germanic influences. How could the Dacian Cult of Zalmoxis have developed into organized...

According to the Qur’an, before the days of Muhammad there was another prophet by the name of Hud. This man preached monotheism to the early Arab tribes, urging them to abandon their wicked, hedonistic, polytheist ways or face the wrath of the One True God. The tribes ignored the prophet and so...

The Ancient Egyptian goddess Neith seems very interesting. How could a religion with Neith as its monotheistic god emerge? Where might it grow and thrive? The Cult of Isis, for example, spread to Rome. A syncretic religion of some sort is okay, as long as God is referred to as Neith (and as...

So I just returned from my trip to see the Kaaba and its 360 idols. The statue of the golden-handed Hubal was truly breath-taking. During the tour of the temple though our tour-guide mentioned that all of these rich artworks and holy sites came close to being lost in the 7th century when a...