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== The Torah and the history of Israel's religion ==
{{See also|History of ancient Israel and Judah|Origins of Judaism}}
Wellhausen used the sources of the Torah as evidence of changes in the history of Israelite religion as it moved (in his opinion) from free, simple and natural to fixed, formal and institutional.{{sfn|Miller|2000|p=182}} Modern scholars of Israel's religion have become more circumspect in how they use the Hebrew Bible, not least because many have concluded that the Hebrew Bible is not a reliable witness to the religion of ancient Israel and Judah,<ref name="Lupovitch">{{cite book |last1=Lupovitch |first1=Howard N. |date=2010 |title=Jews and Judaism in World History |chapter=The world of the Hebrew Bible |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s7uLAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 |location=[[Abingdon-on-Thames|Abingdon]] |publisher=[[Routledge]] |pages=5–10 |isbn=978-0-203-86197-4}}</ref> representing instead the beliefs of only a segment of the ancient Israelite community centered in [[Jerusalem#Ancient period|Jerusalem]] and devoted to the exclusive worship of [[Yahweh]].{{sfn|Stackert|2014|p=24}}{{sfn|Wright|2002|p=52}}