| 96:0.3 The [[Salem]] [[religion]] [[persisted]] among the [[Kenites]] in [[Palestine]] as their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creed creed], and this [[religion]] as it was later [[adopted]] by the [[Hebrews]] was [[influenced]], first, by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_egyptian_religion Egyptian moral teachings]; later, by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyro-Babylonian_religion Babylonian theologic thought]; and lastly, by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism Iranian] conceptions of [[good]] and [[evil]]. Factually the [[Hebrew]] [[religion]] is predicated upon the [[covenant]] between [[Abraham]] and [[Machiventa]] [[Melchizedek]], evolutionally it is the outgrowth of many [[unique]] situational circumstances, but [[culturally]] it has borrowed freely from the [[religion]], [[morality]], and [[philosophy]] of the entire [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levant]. It is through the [[Hebrew]] [[religion]] that much of the [[morality]] and [[religious]] [[thought]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_egyptian_religion Egypt], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamian_religion Mesopotamia], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persia#Early_history_.283200.C2.A0BC_.E2.80.93_625.C2.A0BC.29 Iran] was transmitted to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental] peoples. | | 96:0.3 The [[Salem]] [[religion]] [[persisted]] among the [[Kenites]] in [[Palestine]] as their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creed creed], and this [[religion]] as it was later [[adopted]] by the [[Hebrews]] was [[influenced]], first, by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_egyptian_religion Egyptian moral teachings]; later, by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyro-Babylonian_religion Babylonian theologic thought]; and lastly, by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism Iranian] conceptions of [[good]] and [[evil]]. Factually the [[Hebrew]] [[religion]] is predicated upon the [[covenant]] between [[Abraham]] and [[Machiventa]] [[Melchizedek]], evolutionally it is the outgrowth of many [[unique]] situational circumstances, but [[culturally]] it has borrowed freely from the [[religion]], [[morality]], and [[philosophy]] of the entire [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levant]. It is through the [[Hebrew]] [[religion]] that much of the [[morality]] and [[religious]] [[thought]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_egyptian_religion Egypt], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamian_religion Mesopotamia], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persia#Early_history_.283200.C2.A0BC_.E2.80.93_625.C2.A0BC.29 Iran] was transmitted to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental] peoples. |