From circular to linear time
The axial revolution, manifested in Judea, led to the development of a religion that presents time as a form of cosmic history. As a narrative with an open feature. In which you participate alongside God in the realization of that ideal.
This progress is charged actualized through faith in this linear version of time. This idea was groundbreaking: it looked at the time as an infinite progression, rather than the circular time of the shaman traditions (Hindus are another example).
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