Ramana,
Normative Ethics is like a fingerprint and cannot be obfuscated by back projection of a monotheist sensibility onto ancient history. Are we to believe that the Sikh Gurus were monotheist iconoclasts as propounded by some elements today; of course not, that account is merely British colonial instigation and re-interpretation. Monotheism, iconoclasm are all incidental in "Religion". The important part of "Ethical Monotheism" is the Ethical part and those critical fingerprints localize only to the Greeks. Look at works of gmirkin, wesselius, lemche for greek geopolitical origin of OT. So-called Egyptian monotheism is simply a point reinterpretation, same as seeing advaita or Sikhi as monotheism.
Normative Ethics is like a fingerprint and cannot be obfuscated by back projection of a monotheist sensibility onto ancient history. Are we to believe that the Sikh Gurus were monotheist iconoclasts as propounded by some elements today; of course not, that account is merely British colonial instigation and re-interpretation. Monotheism, iconoclasm are all incidental in "Religion". The important part of "Ethical Monotheism" is the Ethical part and those critical fingerprints localize only to the Greeks. Look at works of gmirkin, wesselius, lemche for greek geopolitical origin of OT. So-called Egyptian monotheism is simply a point reinterpretation, same as seeing advaita or Sikhi as monotheism.