They participated at the very earliest stages in the wider religious and cultic culture of the Ancient Near East.

他们从最初就影响着,广泛古代近东地区的宗教信仰。

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And this is part of what ancient religion was like, is that people were not exclusive.

古代宗教的特点之一，就是人们并不排外。

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Well, like the rest of the ancient world, Israel had a cultic system, and that cultic system featured a sanctuary: a sacred space with holy objects; sacred objects, where priests performed a variety of ritual acts.

和其他古代世界一样，以色列有一个宗教系统，圣所是这个系统的一个特色：,它是一个布满了神圣物体的地方，祭司会在这里举行一系列的仪式。

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So according to Wellhausen, the early period of ancient Israel must have been characterized by a free, more natural form of religion, an intimate relationship with God, unencumbered or unsullied by the legalistic cultic obsessions of priests and cult.

据Wellhausen，古代以以列早期,一定是以自由自然的宗教形式为特色的，与上帝关系亲密，不受任何阻碍,牧师和仪式痴迷于遵从律法，造成阻碍。

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