What is the importance of Judaism in the book, Thou Art That?

An ethnic religion, Judaism is the heritage of anyone born to a Jewish mother. Males are expected to be circumcised into the covenant of Abraham, and there are other ritual obligations. Judaism has a long history of surviving persecutions based on the cohesiveness of Jews' shared history. Any Jew is all of Judaism. Celebration of the Seder meal at Passover reinforces this. "Hebrew" is first applied to the patriarch Abraham. Joseph goes down into Egypt and Moses leads out a holy nation unified and empowered by Yahweh. Moses accepts the Law on their behalf. They conquer Palestine as a "Promise" or "Holy Land." The Bible is written down after the Babylonian Exile, when the myths that fill the opening chapters of Genesis are absorbed. The Mother Goddess is transmuted into Yahweh, which props up a male-dominated society. The Hebrew scriptures contain elements of history only in Kings and Chronicles.