" The history of Israel is the record of its faithfulness or failure in the fulfillment of a divine mission. Israel stood alone among the peoples of the ancient East as the one witness to the Law of the one God. Every culture is a moral order, but the moral order of Israel was identical with the Law of Yahveh, as revealed to Moses and elaborated in the teachings of the priests and prophets. "

― Christopher Henry Dawson , The Formation of Christendom