They still wanted to be complete monotheists and have only one God.

他们依然是忠实的一神论者,只信奉一个上帝。

youdao

These prophets aren't necessarily monotheists; they don't deny the existence of gods other than Yahweh. They seem to be what scholars call monolatrists, insisting that Israelites worship only one God.

这些先知并不是纯粹的一神论者，他们并不否认除耶和华外有其他神的存在，看起来他们是学者口中的“单拜一神教教徒”，坚持以色列人只应膜拜耶和华。

youdao

And in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries this progression was viewed as an advance, which is not very surprising because the whole theory was put forward by scholars who were basically western monotheists.

在十八十九世纪，这个演变,被认为是一种进步，这并不奇怪,因为整个理论基本上都是由,西方一神论者提出的。

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