It was just a more refined, more highly evolved, version of Ancient Near Eastern religion.

这是一种更加精炼的，更加进化的,古近东宗教版本。

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One that was developed a number of years ago but has been perfected and refined in recent years with very, very good research.

该概念很多年前就已经提出了,但在近年通过高水平的研究才被改进完善

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