sentences:  The name may have begun as an epithet of El, head of the Bronze Age Canaanite pantheon, but earlier mentions are in Ancient Egyptian texts that place God among the nomads of the southern Transjordan.After evolving from its monolatristic roots, Judaism became strictly monotheistic.No consensus has been reached by academics on the origins of monotheism in ancient Israel, but "Yahweh clearly came out of the world of the gods of the Ancient Near East."