Abstract
In this chapter the author attempts to respond to a question that anyone might ask who is aware of the path taken by the idea of monotheism before implanting itself solidly in Israel. From where did the impulse come that made Jewish religion move from “monolatry” to “monotheism”? The author focuses on some texts that originated in the Jewish diaspora, written in Greek, and clearly influenced by the thought of the philosophers, and others from the land of Israel and written in Hebrew, in which this influence can be completely excluded. The author also presents a Jewish text which is in the Christian Bible and presents the same ideas in a more abstract way. The author's lecture has three parts: (i) Abraham and the gods in Palestinian Judaism; (ii) Abraham and the gods in Hellenistic Judaism, and (iii) from monolatry to monotheism as the result of Greek influence. Keywords:Abraham; ellenistic Judaism; Greek; Hebrew; Israel; Jewish religion; monotheism; Palestinian Judaism
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