So Israelite-Judean religion on the ground shared many cultic forms and practices and rituals with Canaanite and Ancient Near Eastern culture generally.

因此以色列-犹太宗教本质上来说,和迦南以及古近东时期的文化,在宗教形式、操作和仪式上有很多共同点。

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Even religious truths, which, of course, even religious truths have to be subjected to the final arbiter, who is the individual's conscience and the individual's power of reason.

当然，即使是最强有力的知识形式，即使是宗教真理也必须受制于最终的裁决者，也就是个人的良心和推理的力量。

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For others, that is mended within religious text.

但对另外些人来说，它只是宗教的表现形式而已。

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But monotheism was judged to be the best and purest form of religion.

而一神论则被认为是最好最纯净的宗教形式。

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The epic form is a classical, pagan form.

史诗是一种古典的，无宗教信仰的形式。

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We're hoping today to touch on both areas of that, both the personal spirituality and religious experience and also some questions of religion in America: how religion takes its various forms and different communities, depending on their social location.

接下来我们会就这两方面展开讨论，会谈到个人的信仰，宗教经历,也会谈到美国的宗教问题：,宗教在不同群体下,拥有多种呈现形式，因社会地点不同而相异。

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Now in Kaufman's view the similarities, therefore, between the Israelites and Ancient Near Eastern religion and cultures that everyone was so busily finding and celebrating, these were in the end similarities in form and external structure, appearance. They weren't essential similarities.

在考夫曼看来，人们苦苦寻找的,犹太与古近东宗教文化的相似点,只是在形式和外部结构上相同罢了,这些并不是必要的。

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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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