And it's that picture of the universe, Kaufman wants to argue, that is challenged by the monotheistic revolution. Again he sees this as a revolution of ancient Israel.

考夫曼提出，正是这个宇宙的大致框架，受到了来自一神论革命的挑战，在考夫曼看来,这是古以色列的一次革命。

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And so the pagan picture of an amoral universe of just competing powers, good and evil, Kaufman says, is transformed into a picture of a moral cosmos. The highest law is the will of God and that imposes a morality upon the structure of the universe.

在异教观念中，一个充满了权力斗争，善神与恶神对抗的，非道德宇宙，变成了,一个道德的宇宙，上帝的旨意是最高的法律,它给宇宙的结构添加了道德这一概念。

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