Skeptical about the wrong things/looking for book recs

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Skeptical about the wrong things/looking for book recs

Hey guys

I took a break from research for a while. Read some fiction, watched cringe reality tv, drew a fair bit. Medication is steady, I'm getting fresh air. Things are getting better.

So I was thinking about what I might want to read next when I want a new book for research and I'm interested in learning more about the evolution of monotheism, how canaanite gods became the Jewish god, polytheism becoming monotheism, etc, and I realized something. See, my first thought when it comes to this topic is, "well This is all just guess work, we can't prove how the Jewish religion came around, and what is archeologists and historians are just trying to uphold their own agenda?"

In other words, I'm very critical and skeptical about this branch of history and research, yet as you know I lack skepticism in regards to Catholic stories and books about apparitions and miracles. I can look at these scholars and historians with a critical eye but when I hear an apparition story I say ,"well it seems impossible for this to be a hoax, how could a bunch of kids fool their community? Surely none of this is exaggerated and all the eye witnesses are 200% accurate "

And I feel like being able to see the gap here is at least a step in the right direction, because I know I have it messed up. Of course history and related fields are all just doing their best with limited resources, but they're educated resources open to bring corrected when new evidence comes out.

I'm guessing this is just my indoctrination coming through, being taught my whole life that the church has all the answers and all the evidence

So that's where I am, and I'm interested if anyone can reccomend resources about what we do know about the evolution of monotheism, Judaism, etc. Is "the history of god" any good?

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