THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND/OR SENT BY A FOREIGN AGENT LATYNINA YULIA LEONIDOVNA, OR CONCERNS THE ACTIVITIES OF A FOREIGN AGENT LATYNINA YULIA LEONIDOVTHE SHORT History of Monotheism from the author of the books "Jesus. Historical investigation" and "Christ with a Thousand Faces".The importance of the idea of monotheism cannot be overestimated — the entire modern world is shaped by monotheism. However, monotheism, if you think about it, is a very strange idea. The belief that there is a single creator God who is all-good, but at the same time responsible for deaths, epidemics, cancer and heart attacks, for the deaths of infants and just people, is a bizarre and unnecessary idea. Chinese civilization has been doing very well without it for more than three thousand years. Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome flourished for centuries without monotheism.The author of this book will not discuss the concept of One God from either a theological or philosophical point of view. If you came here for the transcendental principles, you are not here. This book has only one purpose — historical analysis. To see how the idea of one god arose and evolved and which interest groups it served. How did monotheism arise? Where did those Jews who worshipped Yahweh but were not monotheists disappear to? And what does the ancient beliefs of the Jews, which are not included in the strict monotheistic canon, but have been preserved for centuries among the people, have to do with the development of the other two largest monotheistic religions — Christianity and Islam? This book is devoted to the answers to these questions.