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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This is the world, particularly the legal world, catching up with where religious and cultural concepts have been for a very long time.

这就是这个世界，尤其是法律世界，向宗教和文化概念靠拢的地方,而后两者已存在很长时间了。

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Conquered peoples would trade their defeated god for the victorious god of their conquerors and eventually there would be a cultural and religious assimilation, intermarriage.

胜利者所信仰的神,自然就取代了被征服民族的神,最终就产生了文化，宗教间的,同化和通婚现象。

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So Judah, the Southern Kingdom, is a tribute-paying vassal state to the Assyrian overlord. And of course there's a great deal of Assyrian cultural influence and religious influence in Judah as a result.

那么犹大，南部王国，是纳贡者-向亚述统治者,上交贡赋理所应当的，他们受到了许多亚述,文化和宗教影响。

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They'll say human rights are ideas and concepts embedded in religious traditions, in cultures, in ethical traditions, and only recently have we decided to make human rights law out of it.

他们会说人权的思想和概念,根植于宗教传统，文化和道德传统中，只是近几百年来我们决定,从而确立了人权法。

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At times we will be religious and cultural critics.

有时，我们又是宗教评论家和文化评论家。

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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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And I, as president of ACLS, was one of the spokespersons for people who believed in the integrity of culture and who were accused of undermining cultural values, religious values, political values.

而我作为ACLS的主席，便成为一些人的发言人之一,这些人坚信文化的完整性,但有些人谴责我们侵蚀了,文化，宗教和政治的价值观。

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