Oh... just a FYI on Judaism...
That actually started when the Hebrew were in exile in Babylon.
The crypts had learned the writing in Babylon and took on their writing and beliefs.
They were stuck with why their GOD(s) had forsaken them and turned to believe the answer that they needed was to celebrate only one god and they turned to the writing of YAWAY. (not sumerian)
But if you read the tails of the script they wrote, you will find many twisted stories of the Sumerian writing. Flood story, and, get this, even the story of Moses as he was put into a basket smeared with bitumen and placed into the Nile... the problem here is that there is no bitumen near the nile, but it was pretty handy on the Euphrates river in Iraq.
Of course Cyrus the great released the Hebrew as he did not care about their religion or any one else's and left it to be tolerated. And is why he is celebrated in the bible.
This was the birth of Judaism. Many hundreds of years before Jesus.
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