I'm currently in a history class in college covering Mesopotamia and the birth of Judaism. They say that what separated the hebrews from other early religions and groups as a whole was their belief in one god. Of course this is true, but didn't the stories of the torah, specifically about god Yahweh, come from several different stories about different gods? Although our textbook ignores it, I seem to recall earliest Hebrew mythology as being polytheistic, Yahweh being known as the jealous god. Eventually as different tribes conquered and fell and grew into one tribe, stories were absorbed and eventually ended up being associated with the one recognized god yahweh. Maybe I'm just going crazy and I've misremembered or mixed up mythologies. Can someone clear things up for me?