Abstract
HE religion of Israel resulted from the interaction of many phenomena: the personal religious experiences of individuals (Gen. 12:1-3; Ex. 3), the contemporary national situation and the environmental influences of surrounding cultures. The influence of Canaanite and Babylonian culture has been quite clearly demonstrated' and significant efforts have been made to link certain Hebrew religious concepts with Egypt.2 Another environmental factor, the desert, is worthy of consideration. It was probably from the desert that the early ancestors of the Israelites came (Dt. 32:10). It was in the desert of Sinai that Israel had its initial experience with Yahweh and it was to the desert that later prophets looked for a normative criterion for the pure religion of Yahweh (Hos. 2:14). Studies of the desert have not had at their
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