ry, the Hebrews adopted Yahweh as their national and primary God and officially became a monotheistic religion. Organization of this religion inspired new intellectual leadership of prophets and prophetic writers. These new ideas were a culture shock for a society that still practiced polytheism and resulted in turmoil between Hebrews that believed in Yahweh as their one and only God and Hebrews that believed in Yahweh as their most important of many gods. It is at this point in Hebrew history when the Jewish people created a new form of religion where new ideas of Yahweh were taught, and the Torah became the most important and pure law for the Hebrews. (http://www.us-israel.org). Aside from conflicting religions, Jewish people also encountered other problems with the monarchy. Hebrews believed that Yahweh was their king and his laws were their laws. In the monarchy, the tribes of Israel appointed a human king and obeyed his laws instead of divine law. This created conflict between the Hebrews that followed the laws of the king, and the Jewish that followed Yahweh and the law of the Torah. The Children of Israel that settled in Palestine between 1250 and 1050 BC found themselves amidst a corrupt monarchy. The monarchy thrived on arbitrary power, large divisions in the economical gap, vast poverty, heavy taxation, slavery, bribery and fear. The Jewish prophets fiercely disobeyed the humanistic laws of the kingdom and in doing so opposed the corrupt ideas of the monarchy. The only ways that they sought to change their lives were to return to the mosaic religion. This newly created religion was not only monotheistic but also centered on the beliefs of what was right and wrong. The Jewish people felt that many things were wrong with the monarchy and the only way to keep themselves connected with Yahweh would be to separate themselves from the corrupt monarchy and to practice their own laws of the Torah. This civil disobedience ...
